04.06.2024 PELAGIC 77 No2 LAUNCHED

Pelagic 77 No 2 Amundsen Launched at KM Shipbuilders Makkum - Trips on this vessel available in the New Year

The second Pelagic 77 named Amundsen was splashed at KM Yacht Builders in Makkum, Netherlands yesterday late afternoon.

Today the two masts have gone in and dock tuning has begun. Work on board continues with Amundsen crew Jakob Campforts, Paula Trolliet and John De Wet on site liaising with KM on the final fit out and detailing.

Still weeks away from sea trials, it will be a ‘full court press’ to quickly leave the confines and shallows of the Ijsselmeer and start the maiden voyage to the Hamble River   where more significant testing can be carried out in the convenient waters of the Solent and in near proximity to the English Channel at hand (before the entire workforce of Europe disappears on the  summer holiday!!).

TRIPS AVAILABLE ON AMUNDSEN NEW YEAR 2025
More on progress as the weeks go by, but we will be commercial by January 2025 in the far South. Here is a taster of what is on offer NOW and these two trips are WIDE OPEN

30 Dec 2024 - 20 Jan 2025 - Antarctica ‘Ice With Everything’ – 21 days. See https://www.pelagic.co.uk/progamundsen_ant2024.asp 

24 Mar - 23 Apr 2025  RYA Ocean Yachtmaster Ocean Shorebased Theory course followed by a 12 day Beagle Channel cruise including rounding of Cape Horn, then 12 days passage to Itajai Brazil – 30 days in total.  See https://www.pelagic.co.uk/progamundsen_del2025.asp

OTHER TRIPS ON VINSON OF ANTARCTICA ON OFFER
See Programmes page at https://www.pelagic.co.uk/programme.asp 

SKIP ON SAILING

Finally for those of you who missed it last time.  Details of how to get the book are available below

Cheers Skip

For those of you who read Yachting World from time to time, you have no doubt read a few of my column pieces over the eight year period beginning in 2014. The 101 articles collated herein are mainly opinion pieces on a variety of topics of all things in sailing, along with a few yarns thrown in. Not to be read from cover to cover, it is more of a ‘pick up and read a few pages’ while on watch, to have on your bedside table or alongside when on the loo . . . . Enjoy! Sir Robin Knox-Johnston did, as he wrote the forward . . . .

The tongue-in-cheek sketches are by my dear friend Davide Besana in Italy.

At the beginning of the book is the appeal to my readers:

“And if an author in recording what has interested himself differs from editors – so everlastingly concerned with what may interest others, he may no less, knowing himself the only worthwhile thing for him to be, hope that a hundred thousand souls will see him as the mirror of themselves – and buy his book.”
Rockwell Kent
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Cheers Skip