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“We took longer than we thought,” he says, listing the various pit stops, from the Gulf of Lyons in Marseilles and cruising Barcelona, to skirting the Spanish coast and crossing the Bay of Biscay. “It wasn’t intended that I should stop at three separate sherry-making vineyards along the way, but while you’re there why wouldn’t you?” he asks. “You have to take everything as it comes.”
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Galena; goddess of calm seas
Sometimes it takes an entirely separate voyage just to reach the starting point of a planned expedition. For the owner of the Vripack-designed Doggersbank Galena, it took two months to journey from Monaco where the boat is berthed to Scotland where his trip began in the summer of 2023.
