Tell Törnblad is an old friend of Claes and Bertha.He is working as an economy manager on a Swedish insurance company.Tell has an extensive background as a longdistance sailor,with sailings to the Caribbean,Northern Norway,the Faeroes-just to mention some.Tell and Claes met in Lissabon 1980,both crewing different Scandinavian doubleenders on their way to the Caribbean(but that´s a long and different story).

Tell will embark in Willemstad/Curacao mid February,and sail over the San Blas-Panama-to the Galapagos.He will disembark on some of the mainislands in the Galapagos to return to Sweden (late March/early April).