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Fleur
Ben Stoddart
Mon 20 Apr 2009 20:08
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Well, we are still in Falmouth!
It took us 17 hours to get here from
Plymouth. Unfortunately the wind was against us and there was not much of
it either - I have to say it was really tempting to switch the engine on at
02:00 this morning when we were drifting past Dodman Point doing 0.5 knots, but
this is supposed to be a carbon neutral trip afterall. The reason why we
haven't left Falmouth yet is that we are waiting for a spare part for the Duogen
(wind/water generator) to arrive tomorrow morning.
We had quite a send off yesterday - a lot of time
with the BBC which ended up in us being on the local news, and we saw ourselves
in the Western Morning News today too. This afternoon we continued some
filming which will end up in a promotional video.
So tomorrow we will set sail in the morning - the
forecast looks like that it will be a slow start but hopefully we will be on our
way.
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