SOH skipper log and positions “We are back on the ocean, sailing. It’s a huge step after all that work.” foto©FaNandor/SOH60′
SOH POSITIONS and PHOTOS:
Pos.: 12:30 UTC 41° 43′ N, 013° 15′ W. (7 – 10 kn 60°)
Pos: SOH-Fa GPS location Date/Time:12/05/2015 13:04:58 CET
Latitude:41.66661
Longitude:-13.84665
- SOH skipper Nandor Fa SOH_onboard_photo©FA_N_Madeira_LesSables PC050157
- SOH Imoca 60′ delivery under jury mast and sails SOH_onboard_photo©FA_N Madeira_LesSables PC050157
- SOH tracking and weather Madeira-LesSables IMG_6567
- SOH delivery Madeira-LesSables Guest crew: Károly Fonyó SOH_onboard_photo©FA_N
- SOH tracking and weather Madeira-LesSables IMG_6567
- SOH tracking and weather Madeira-LesSables IMG_6567
- SOH 60 under jury sails onboard©Nandorfa_IMG_6532.JPG
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- Fa Nándor 8mpro open carbon boat for lake sailing fahajo8mpro©fahajo_archiv_MG_2779
- FA NANDOR fahajo8mpro photo©FA N_archiv 2013-09-28
- Fa Nándor 8mpro open carbon boat for lake sailing fahajo8mpro©fahajo_archiv
Nandor’s 8m open carbon lake racing boat – 2 x winner around the biggest lake in Europe – TBS Grandprix. (photo©Fa_Nándor_archive)
05. December 2015
Latitude:41.19244 N Longitude: 14.47446 W
GPS location Date/Time:12/05/2015 08:18:08 CET
Nandor Fa SOH LOG 30th Nov. 2015, 23:00 UTC We are back on the ocean, sailing. It’s a huge step after all that work. foto©FaNandor/SOH60′
After the dismast on 30. October we stopped on the East side of Madeira in a port together with the St Michel-Virbac and its whole team. The French crew helped us as we arrived in the dawn and gave us many useful tips as we were having dinner together. There is almost nothing they haven’t experienced, and they were really helpful to share it with us.
After lodging the boat in a safe place, we flew back to Hungary with Peter for a small press conference and I immediately started organizing the boat’s and my future. My final decision was to build a temporary jury mast in Madeira, with which I can sail back to Les Sables d’Olonne, France, using much smaller sails than an Imoca 60 usually has. The easiest and most economic solution was for me to build a short 13-metre iron mast, to which I can hoist the sails of my 8-metre sailing boat (I have a small racing boat at home on lake Balaton). I sat down to draw the structure, then we manufactured all the necessary fittings, packed everything we needed and sent them out to Madeira.
- Spirit of Hungary 60′ preparations in Madeira ©mixPRess
- Spirit of Hungary 60′ preparations in Madeira ©mixPRess
- SOH jury rig ©mixpress
- Spirit of Hungary 60′ Madeira preparations for sailing out mixpress
- Spirit of Hungary 60′ Madeira – jury mast is ready ©mixpress
- Miquel Sá the very nice Maderian sailor helped a lot to Nandor Fa for the preparing to set the jury rig and mast before the start of the SOH Imoca 60′ to Les Sables d’Olonne
- from the top of Madeira
- Spirit of Hungary 60′ Madeira preparations of the jury rig
- Miquel Sá, Vig Rita and Marcio Serrado Fernandes photo©VigPéter
In Madeira we met Hungarian musicians, who immediately found the injured Hungarian boat and offered their kind support. Péter and his wife Rita, and Edina are members of the Symphonic Orchestra of Madeira. A friend of Edina’s, Miguel is a sailor who knows everything and everyone, he helped me discover important sources, places, possibilities. He’s a fantastic guy, nothing was impossible for him and he didn’t hesitate to help me with full energy.
- Madeira Symphonic Orchestra with the Hungarian classical music artists
- SOH skipper Nandor Fa and the Hungarian classical music artists
We brought the boat around the corner to Marina Funchal with Miguel, collected all the materials needed and waited for the package and my colleague to arrive. As they arrived, we immediately started working: welded, drilled, painted, etc… Three days later when the crane arrived we were done with the whole job, ready to adjust the rig to the boat. Luckily it was a somewhat calm day so we could put the boat beside the only wall in the marina where the water depth was enough and the boat could easily be approached. (Otherwise the boat was mooring 100 m away from the land, and I could only get in and out with a small wet kayak.) Three hours of hard and concentrated work later the mast was on.
It took one more week to finalize everything onboard, and as soon as the weather forecast seemed fair enough, we hoisted our sails and said goodbye to our new friends, who accompanied us with their sailboat on the way out of the bay. The day before, my old friend Karcsi arrived from home to join me on the way back to our continent. There was 10 knots of Easterly breeze with clouds on the sky.
All together we have approximately 120 square metres of sails to bring us North, with an average 5 kts speed. I’m a little bit worried about what happens if a gust comes in, as this Imoca boat is about ten times heavier with huge power and much stronger forces, than what these small sails were designed for. I feel like if I was trying to sail with handkerchiefs hoisted, I need to be very careful. The goal is to reach Les Sables with these.
We left Madeira at 9:30am local time. At 01:00am we had already made 80 nautical miles, it’s great, given the circumstances!
Thank you very much once again to our new friends on Madeira for all their support!
- SOH Imoca60 ©FA_N_Madeira-LesSables – jury mast, rig and sails PB300146
- SOH skipper Nandor Fa leaving Madeira-Funchal – sailing to Les Sables d’Olonne under jury rig, mast and sails photo©M.SerradoFernandes
- SOH skipper Nandor Fa leaving Madeira-Funchal – sailing to Les Sables d’Olonne under jury rig, mast and sails photo©M.SerradoFernandes
- SOH skipper Nandor Fa leaving Madeira-Funchal – sailing to Les Sables d’Olonne under jury rig, mast and sails photo©M.SerradoFernandes
- SOH skipper Nandor Fa leaving Madeira-Funchal – sailing to Les Sables d’Olonne under jury rig, mast and sails photo©M.SerradoFernandes
- SOH FA N leaving Madeira-under jury sig , mast and sails – sailing to LesSables photo©VigPP1100262/FA N archive

Spirit of Hungary skipper Nandor Fa with his very helpful and nice friends on Madeira (photo©mixpress)
Madeira Symphonic Orchestra with the Hungarian classical music artists.
- Madeira Symphonic Orchestra with the Hungarian classical music artists
- SOH skipper Nandor Fa and the Hungarian classical music artists
- Hungarian classical music artists.
Bolba Gábor – double bass
Harangi Anikó – piano
Hennel András – piano
Szepesi Emese- piano
Szepesi László – cello
Tenki Edina- violin
Vígné Boross Rita -Flute
Víg Judit – piano
Víg Péter -Horn