Ceirwan
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So who's planning on an 2010 attack on America and what boat are you planning to do it in?
I'm hoping to, in an Eygthene 24.
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sterenn
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Bonjour
I'm planning to sail the JC2010 (as I planned to sail the JAC2008!). Life will decide.
I plan to sale Sterenn and sail a smaller less demanding boat.
Eric 
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Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire complique ?
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Ceirwan
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Out of interest what class was Sterenn? Any pics?
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Flipper_K6354
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Not planning on Jester 2010 but am working towards starting (and hopefully finishing) the JAC 2012.
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Mouton_Noir
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Not planning on Jester 2010
So when you said, on 13th July:
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I am contemplating a longish trip in Flipper... in 2010 and maybe again a couple of years later
you meant across the estuary? Or have your contemplations crystalised a little since then?
I too am contemplating. For the moment, I am following Sterenn's advice - plan to do it; decide later. For now, I don't feel I have sufficient understanding of the challenge. My boat is a Golden Hind 26 - shallow draft, long keel. I need more experience, the boat needs work. But that's what the two years are for!
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Flipper_K6354
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2010 is a shorter trip than across the atlantic! It is 'longish' in terms of time as I hope to be away for 6 weeks but it is not a non stop sailing trip.
I never realised that my posts were watched so closely! 
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Mouton_Noir
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Ah that makes sense! I'm not really stalking you... it's just that I tend to notice any posts that look as though they may be contemplating Jester. Especially east coastish (I'm Gravesend).
Time runs short for 2010. I need a significant singlehanded voyage in 2009... the North Sea beckons, but might be a tad crowded with oil/gas rigs and support vessels. And as for the work needed to get Black Sheep ship shape...
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Flipper_K6354
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Had been looking at potential 500 nm trips. Don't really want to sail across to Norway or Denmark as will have to get back again doubling the time away. Was thinking about sailing North East (ish) round Holy Island and back but as you suggest there are the oil / gas platforms to consider.
Centaur Pipedream has recently got back from the Azores and did the return trip solo all the way up channel so I am interested to have a chat with him and see how the last bit was - potentially at his most tired with the busier shipping lanes too.
Good luck with the preparations.
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CentaurPipedream
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Peter, the last bit was without doubt the busiest, and was in fact, nothing like the rest (majority) of the trip. The planning trip up to Newcastle I did last (?) year was useful, but again, little like the "real thing", albeit good preparatuion in other ways. Looking forward to that chat and beer !
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Ceirwan
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I certainly plan to get a passage of at least a week singlehanded offshore next year in prep.
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