October — December 2003
Adriatic → Caribbean
Punat · Gibraltar · Canaries · Martinique · St Lucia · BVI
FIU left Marina Punat on 5 October 2003. Down through the Adriatic to Otranto, across the Mediterranean to Gibraltar, then south to the Canaries to wait for the trade winds. The Atlantic crossing went west on the ARC route, finishing in Martinique just before Christmas. The final piece was the long shake-down up the chain of the Lesser Antilles to the British Virgin Islands. The log entries for this leg were never written down — the photographs and the More magazine article below are what survived.
Stops along the way
5 Oct 2003
Departure from Marina Punat
Oct 2003
Adriatic → Otranto → Mediterranean
Covered in More, Dec 2003
Nov 2003
Gibraltar → Las Palmas, Canaries
Waiting for the trade winds
Late Nov 2003
ARC start — Atlantic crossing
~2,800 nm westbound
Dec 2003
Arrival Martinique
Covered in More, Jan 2004
Early 2004
Windward Islands → British Virgin Islands
Photographs
6 frames from adriatic → caribbean.
In the press
Reported in More magazine.
The Croatian sailing magazine More followed FIU through the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific. Article preserved here in three languages.