Sunday, 13 September 2026

A round the world non stop record challenge
 in a modified 5.8m Class Globe 


Alessio Campriani is busy with his challenge at the smallest boat around the world via the great capes record. He is doing it in a modified 580 and has added a hard dodger, a crash bulkhead in the bow - Like the bulkhead in the Setka A, a larger stronger mast section, Twin rudders, Hydraulic autopilot , an escape hatch in the hullside near the bow and a stainless bowsprit amongst other changes.

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here are some pictures of his boat

























Wishing him fair winds and a all the best on his adventure - break the record!  Go For It!



position as at 13 september 2026  9:59:00 pm






Thursday, 3 September 2026

 Raspberry Pi Navigation System



I have been busy setting setting up a navigation system that runs on a raspberryPi computer, a 10 inch screen and a USB GPSmouse -  that combines charts,  grib files as an overlay and ais data wirelessly sent from my Onwa ks200+ - it does weather routing as well - using wind instruments I could even get their data via SignalK. I am busy working out Polars as well, at the moment I am using polars from a Muscadet as I have not yet created a custom polar file.


here are the screenshots from the system











Please visit the blog again to see how the system will be installed on Cagarro and also please visit the youtube channel and register because I will be making videos showing it in use and if there is enough interest  maybe some videos with  hardware options, chart and software installs as well

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A round the world non stop record challenge  in a modified 5.8m Class Globe  Alessio Campriani is busy with his challenge at the smallest bo...