Crossing the Ocean with nothing can be done. Dan Lenard has only 2,000 miles to go
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How many would have bet that, after 17 days of sailing, Dan Lenard, would already be halfway through the course, averaging more than 5 knots? In a few. And they would have won.
The co-founder of the renowned ship design firm Nuvolari-Lenard last Jan. 21 he had set out from Cadiz, for the Atlantic crossing to Miami (the goal was to arrive to coincide with the Miami Boat Show, Feb. 14-18), solo on Scia, a 33-foot (10-meter) craft made by assembling parts of different hulls, with no engine or instruments, gps, compass, or sextant, just like the navigators of old. We had told you in detail about the feat here.
Quietly, quietly, Dan is proving he has the makings of a sailor. Aided solely by his watch, his sight, the sun and the stars, he is halfway there. She grinded roughly 2,300 of the planned 4,500 at an average speed of 5.5 knots. Really not bad for a barge like Scia.
Even the route, as we can see from the tracking screens, confirms that Lenard knows exactly what he is doing. “You’ll know where I’ll be, I won’t,” he had joked before leaving. But it is actually following rather faithfully, as expected, the route of Columbus’ second voyage to the Indies (instead of stopping in the Caribbean, it will continue on to Miami).
All this, without communicating anything to anyone but the position to those who follow him. No bombastic announcements, no solutions to gratify possible sponsors or “glamorize” the press.
He had said it from the start, Lenard: “This is not a commercial venture. I will sail for the pleasure of it and to call attention to the need for immediate and concrete action to protect the sea.”
Atthis average, we estimate that Dan will need at least a couple of weeks to reach Florida’s shores: but if the trade winds strengthen by pushing Scia faster, he might make it to the close of the show!
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