Marco Polo crew
The Beck family
Anne & Jan Michel
Jan Michel Pinto da Silva and Anne
figured that since we’d finally found the
Daldegan will be starting from Lanzarote
courage to play our hand that Moxie suited
“Encore difficile à croire que nous
on their Outremer 55 catamaran Marco
quite well.”
sommes à 20 jours du début de notre
Polo. Jan Michel, a Brazilian based in
rêve, une vie calme paisible près de la
Paris, is also planning to continue with
After lots of RYA training, boat preparation
nature sur notre bateau, loin du rythme
the Blue Planet Odyssey.
and bashing around the Solent we sailed
effréné des grandes villes. Nous partons
off from the UK in July 2010. Our first year
avec le rallye Atlantique Odyssey par ce
took us to the Algarve, there were many ups
que nous avons le sentiment que l’esprit
and downs and a steep learning curve, from
de ce rallye correspond à nos valeurs, solidarité, convivialité, entraide oú des
The Beck Family
there to the Balearics where we spent two years. Then we decided to go all in, spend
passionnés de voile peuvent se retrouver
“Blue water sailing has appealed to me
our house money and buy a nice big comfy
et vivre leur rêve.”
since I was a small boy; growing up in New
catamaran. Xmas 2012 we took Moxie back
“It is still so hard to believe that we are
Zealand my fondest memories are of time
to the Algarve and moved over to our new
less than three weeks away from the start
spent in boats. My grandfather was a keen
boat. We are now in the Aeolian Islands just
of our dream, a calm and peaceful life close
sailor and built a yacht which he raced in
off Sicily and heading to Greece, then will
to nature on our boat, far from a frenetic
the Auckland to Suva race. I guess this is
be high tailing out to the Canaries to join
urban lifestyle. We are setting off with the
where the seed was planted.
the Atlantic Odyssey.
Atlantic Odyssey because we feel that the
We left New Zealand in 1998 and moved
We keep a blog http://blog.mailasail.com/
spirit of this rally really does correspond
to London, but I was already telling people
moxie”
to our values of solidarity, conviviality and
that we’d be sailing home but imagined it
support where those who are passionate
would be as crew on someone else’s boat.
Mike and Denise Beck will start from La
about sailing can meet and together live
After many years in the UK and now with
Palma in their Fontaine Pajot catamaran
the sailing dream.”
a couple of kids we’d had enough of city
Moxie II.
life and purchased our first ever yacht, a Beneteau 473 which we named Moxie. Moxie roughly translates as gumption, we 48 • Blue Planet LOG • Issue 2 • July 2013