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SGS has joined our team as a sponsor! For those of you who don't know SGS (www.sgs.com), they are the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. They are recognised as the global benchmark for quality and integrity, and have 50,000 employees and a network of more than 1,000 offices and laboratories around the world.

They are our ideal partner! We are very excited about our partnership with them and we know that their expertise in a wide variety of areas, especially in climate change, will prove useful in our expedition. We look forward to working with the team from SGS

In a big storm on the Southern Pacific the rudder system broke in a collision with a floating container and the Genua sail blow open. The only way to steer a boat without the rudder is to trim the sails. So the sails were our last chance. Thanks to the handy «Swiss Tool» from Victorinox, I was able to cut the rope on the top of the 20 m high mast. All this in the wild Southern ocean and finally the sail was free. We were able to go back on curse. After this storm we optimized Pachamama to a vessel that can operate fully autonomous (renewable energies) with maximum safety in the toughest marine environments (Antarctica).

The most used tool to install all these smart and renewable innovations was again the Victorinox «Swiss Tool».