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From Cascais, Portugal to Agadir, Morocco - four days with a gennaker

2 January 2024 · 11 min · 3K views · Agadir

What this video covers

The video is almost entirely corrupted output — repetitive garbled strings, fragmented phrases, and untranslatable noise — with only a handful of intelligible fragments. Those fragments confirm a passage from Cascais, Portugal to Agadir, Morocco, lasting approximately four days (referenced as "after three days in the sea, we are in Morocco"), with a distance of roughly 520 miles and a gennaker used during the passage.9:03 A position update mentions 170 miles remaining and an expected arrival in Agadir the following day.4:04 The crew describes Agadir as "very elegant" on arrival.9:17 A watch system divided into two six-hour shifts — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. — is briefly mentioned.1:08 A reference to the engine appears near the end but the surrounding text is too corrupted to extract any usable detail.9:59 No navigation specifics, weather conditions, gennaker handling technique, or port entry procedure can be recovered from the available text.

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