BLONDE with a TILLER

Good news for Russians. We have been waiting for our own interesting sailing events for so long and now the Russian ladies got down to make cool. I want to introduce my idol for the next few years. Irina Gracheva is 33 years old, an athlete, a beautiful skipper, and a pretendent to participate in the famous Mini Transat regatta across the Atlantic.



I'm sorry, but in this photo I, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean between Portugal and Morocco.))) Unfortunately, I stick to politics so as not to use photos that are already on the Internet. And while I'm not so familiar with the skipper to ask her for exclusive photos. But you can see for yourself if you go to her Facebook page.


So now I will try to talk about this event indirectly and I will tell about my own experience, as well as try to give some useful information for the progressive yachtsmans.

Atlantic ocean. The route runs along the coast of Europe to the Canary Islands (the first stage) and then the boats cross the ocean to the Caribbean coast. Hurricanes born on the west coast of the Atlantic rarely cross the ocean and even if they reach Britain they usually lose their power (Kohls Under sail in a storm). In addition, the start and finish regatta does not coincide with the season of hurricanes. You can exhale.

Ok, open the pirated Bible and read on

Good advice, once I used it to cross the Bay of Biscay. But for athletes this is not relevant, no one will postpone the start because of some kind of weather there. All seriously.

I myself can not understand what is written there, but for more details, you can peep a piece of my pirated map.


Yes, the south-east was blowing good. I will always associate this with the full moon and witches... and completely Aquino. The yacht ran out of gas and nowhere breadcrumbs. It's good that I had a full hold of Spanish wine. But for six days I was just anchored in a small and shallow harbor where the keel began to bump against the bottom in the lowest water. Storm clamped me in a vice, but six days later I raided a supermarket to finally eat cheeeeese.