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Sail Relief Team September 2020 Update – 3 Years After Hurricane Maria
1,500 Comida Caliente meals served, Solar Installations for Firefighters, and the future of Sail Relief Team This week marks 3 years since the devastation of Hurricane Maria and the founding of Sail Relief Team in its response. Below is a short video summary of Sail Relief Team’s inception and early work, using support boats to…
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6 Month Anniversary
Yesterday marked six months after Hurricane Maria and we woke up in the morning on Vieques in yet another blackout. According to Puerto Rico’s Power Authority, 103,000 people still don’t have electricity — and even those who do cannot rely on it. The next Atlantic hurricane season starts in just three months and we have barely started…
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Puerto Rico Se Levanta
December is behind us and we’re finally catching our breath after a wet, beautiful, long, fun, exhausting, rewarding trip. After leaving Inagua and skirting the coast of Hispanola, we crossed the infamous Mona Passage in flat calm with no trouble. We made our first landfall at Cabo Rojo on the western coast of Puerto Rico…
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Marathon to Great Inagua
A stopover in Marathon, FL gave us a first glimpse of severe damage from this devastating hurricane season. The Florida Keys took a direct hit from Irma just before Maria made her way through the Caribbean. Marathon is the home port of S/V Relentless and it was a very bittersweet homecoming from our travels…
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We’re On Our Way!
We launched the boat on Nov 1 from Norfolk, Virginia, after finishing up preparations for the long journey ahead. Since then we’ve sailed over 800 miles south, with a few stops along the way. We have loaded supplies including gasoline and solar power generators, baby formula and the first load of Lifestraw high volume water filters. We are on track to…
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