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3 Boats have Around Alone Training Voyages Underway

    3 of the boats entered in September's Around Alone have entered into a signifigant phase of their training.   They are:  Cray Valley, California Challenge and Great Circle.

    Cray Valley and skipper J.P. Mouligne have just about completed a voyage from Newport Rhode Island USA to Falmouth England.  This voyage is serving as J.P.'s 2000 mile qualifying voyaging and also gets him to Falmouth for the start of the Atlantic Alone race on July 5th.

    J.P. sailled through the full spectrum of condition, from calm enough to hang laundry to 40 to 50 knot winds. 

    On the West Coast Brad Van Liew and California Challenge have completed their qualifying voyage sailing from California to Hawaii.  It took California Challenge two weeks to complete the voyage.   According to Brad: "I had a diverse sail that included being becalmed for a couple of days followed by several days where I averaged over 200 miles."

Great Circle Brian Hancock's Open 50 left Marblehead MA., USA bound for the Azores Islands.  Hancock's 2 man crew had a unique feature.   They were  Robert Fellows of Iowa City, Iowa and Wayne Kentner of London, Ontario, Canada.   The crew memebers were Great Circle supporters who paid their way in order to help Brian out.

    As Great Circle heads for the Azores, Hancock reported: "What more can I tell you? The crew is happy and the food is good. This is nice work if you can get it!"