On my voyages around the world, I have witnessed firsthand how nature has changed. The biodiversity has narrowed and continues to do so; there are fewer birds, fewer fish, fewer sea mammals. All the trash in the sea and the smog above the shipping routes are giving a strong signal.
As someone who loves nature and the sea, and also speaking as a grandfather, I want to take action to preserve this beautiful planet for generations to come. In my future projects, I want to work in cooperation with companies and organizations that are part of the solution, not part of the problem. I want to promote innovations, concrete solutions, and ways as to what we can do, to keep our planet clean, diverse, and viable.
We still have time to put it right!
While we are working already for the second week on the English translations of our GGR 2022 and OGR 2023 books in Bocas del Toro, Panama, Paul Trammel also has the time for the occasional podcast done from the saloon of Windflower with help of Starlink.
Every morning in the dark he disappears with the dinghy to the nearby reefs for his daily session of surfing, pics from today.
A fantastic memory from the start from the City of Sails! Let's hope that in the next edition of the OGR the kiwis will organize a project to enter Lion New Zealand (which would be eligible for the race) to participate with a NZ youth team. That would also bring the spectator fleet back on to the water. Although it was great last year, it was a vague reminiscence of the start 42 years earlier on the Boxing Day of 1981 with kiwi national hero Peter Blake steering Ceramco NZ and Digby Taylor his Outward Bound. We were escorted with the help of police through the croud down to the pier and the boats. 3000 boats were following us out from the startline round the Rangitoto Island with 250.000 people gathered on the shores of Auckland to watch the fleet. A number of helicopters howering above the fleet produced prime time live reporting on TV. Those were the times, but it sure was great to be back in NZ and enjoy the hospitality of the Royal NZ Yacht Squadron, take a pic by the America's Cup, do the rum race with the Commodore etc etc.
Here's another video of the same start from another perspective www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs4b2AF0k80
The 2025 Tapio Lehtinen Sailing Diary and already the fifth Wall Calendar are available.
Price for both 28€+VAT+mailing expenses.
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Flight from Panama City to Bocas del Toro, now on Paul's Cartwright 40 Windflower motoring to an anchorage for the literary work:)
Good surfing in those parts Tapio!
Oih. Ihana paikka ja seutu. Olen ollut siellä 😍
Will spend the nex two weeks in Panama with Paul Trammel working on the translations of both the 2022 GGR / Asteria and 2023 OGR / Galiana WithSecure books. From left to right, yours truly, Paul and an agouti in the hotel garden.
¡Qué bueno q' hablas español, hermanito!
If you need an old proof-reader, I know one...
Itse ymmärrän oheisesta Radiomaailma-lehden artikkelista lähinnä otsikon ja kuvatekstit. Onnittelut ja kiitokset 60-vuotiaalle Jari Perkiömäelle, maailmanlaajuisesti arvostetulle radiokelien meteorologille, joka on sinnikkäästi tehnyt vapaaehtoistöitä radiotiimini kanssa jo kolmen kilpailun aikana. On huikeata, että perinteisellä tekniikalla ilman satelliittiyhteyksiä voidaan saada toimiva yhteys Eteläisellä valtamerellä keikkuvan pienen veneen heikkotehoisen radion kanssa.
Kiitos artikkelista. Jari tekee hyvää duunia. Arvostan sitä todella. Spurs.