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After some amazing adventures and life changing experiences, finalising the paperwork to say goodbye to this wonderful vessel.

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Some Saling hacks to help you all out. 100 euros and it's lighter and more useful. A pasarelle (boarding plank) can cost between 500-1000 euros. We have lots more videos to come, and thanks for your well wishes. Exciting times ahead.

Always keep an eye on your sea cocks and your anchor chain

Really grateful to Able seaman Grant and his colleagues for their assistance.

Destination madiera

Zero swell thanks god. Close hauled all the way to here from Los christianos. Bucket and spade/ fish and chips to sailors paradise.

Poor bugger.

Mostly chilled sailing at wind speed close reach and then the katabtic winds hit

Have my mates who've never sailed onboard so probably could have done more if had an experienced hand with me. Avg speed consistently 10kn

Last stop for us to head to tenerife

My radar fell off whilst sailing to the canaries, due to small rivets applied by pochon a sub contractor of the neel shipyard. This in turn required new cabling in the mast. One way or another the piping that holds the cables became buggered and then needed the mast to come off. I'm offering a no bull review of living with a new neel 51....i should mention to date that whenever there's a problem I do my absolute best to fix it myself. I'm rewarded by mostly arrogance from the shipyard or their sub contractors. Marina fees start to escalate while incompetence and arrogance remain at an all time high. This is typical of a La rochelle built boat i have been told. Thanks god the space and performance are good..... Since receiving the boat in August I have never been reimbursed for any money I spent on warranty repairs.

6m swell and 35kn winds near mas palomas gran canaria. Comfortable vessel even in these seas.

Neel 51 loaded heavy with kit