Susanne Huber-Curphy - today's Moitessier!

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I've been corresponding with Susanne Huber-Curphy who is sailing solo in the Longue Route. A few days ago. I noticed she was heading way east in the South Atlantic. So I asked her if she was heading to France with the rest of the fleet. I got an answer yesterday. She is following the track of the Longue Route as Moitessier did in the original Golden Globe Race when he continued sailing to Tahiti, even though he was winning the race, 'to save his soul'. She is heading into the Pacific. She is just short of crossing her track off South Africa today, which is her 200th day under sail. Keep in mind that she and s/v Nehaj started from Maine so she's already sailed more than a circumnavigation and she's been leading the pack the entire way. She's pulled a Moitessier!!! Or maybe a Nehaj!!! The name Nehaj comes from the Croatian term Ne hajati [nɛ xajati] which means as Susanne puts it, "I named her NEHAJ, that translates to: 'Feel safe here, Do not be afraid'".

In Susanne's words, "Really, it's the most obvious thing to do, isn't it?"
Check out the tracker here: https://maps.sail.cloud/home/event/19
Happy New Year Susanne! May 2019 fill you with wonder as you have done for us. 

From Susanne:

TIME: 2018/12/30 12:00
LATITUDE: 42-06.00S
LONGITUDE: 002-03.00W
COURSE: 090T
SPEED: 6.8
COMMENT: Day 199, 25.828M. The last day of 2018 will be 200 days at sea! Happy New Year!

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  1. CurareTuesday, 15 January, 2019

    Hello, I would like to post a comment on your blog but am having a difficult time of it. I do not know why because we have a sailing blog of our own. Our blog is http://curare.typepad.com. I would like some further information on one of your previous blogs - perhaps comments are closed??. Is there another means to contact you without making it public on your blog site. Perhaps I could go through the OCC? Hopefully this works.

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