The Route







Year 1: November 2012 - November 2013

November 2012: Kemah Texas, Key West Florida, Miami Florida

December 2012: Bimini Island Bahamas,

January 2013: Berry Islands Bahamas

February 2013: Exuma Island chain Bahamas

March 2013: Rum Cay Bahamas

April 2013: Exuma Island chain Bahamas

May 2013: Turks and Caicos Islands

June 2013-October 2013: Lupron Dominican Republic, (Hurricane season)


Year 2: November 2013 - November 2014

November 2013: Puerto Rico

December 2013: Leeward Islands (Island hopping British Virgin islands)

January 2014: Leeward Islands (Island hopping US Virgin Islands)

February 2014: Leeward Islands (Island hopping St Johns)

March 2014: Windward Islands (Island hopping Martinique)

April 2014: Windward Islands (Island hopping St. Lucia)

May 2014: Windward Islands (Island hopping The Grenadines)

June 2014 - October 2014: Grenada(Hurricane Season)

Year 3: November 2014 - November 2015

November 2014: Grenada. Passage to ABC's. Bonaire. To Aruba. Passage to Cartagnena, Columbia.

January 2015:Cartagnena, Columbia and San Blas Islands of Panama

February 2015: Panama Canal. Pacific side of Panama and Costa Rica

March 2015: Galapagos Islands. Pacific Crossing to Marquesas, French Polynesia

April 2015: Sailing to Marquesas. Marquesas Islands.

May 2015: Marquesas Islands. Sail to Tuamotus Islands. Tuamotus Islands, French Polynesia.

June 2015: Tuamotus Islands. Sail to Tahiti. Society Islands, French Polynesia.

July 2015: Side trip to Easter Island. Society Islands, French Polynesia.

August 2015: Southern Cook Islands: Rarotonga, Aitutake, and Palmerston Atoll

Septemer 2015: Island of Niue. Tongan Islands.

October 2015: Tongan Islands

November 2015: Sail to New Zealand. Bay of Islands and Auckland, N.Z.

Year 4: November 2015 – November 2016

December 20015: Texas/California for the holidays

January - February 2016: Return to Auckland. Yard Work and boat projects at Half Moon Bay Marina, Auckland.

March 2016: Travel to South Island of New Zealand in campervan

Beginning of April 2016: Reef Check training in Tonga

May 2016: Passage to Fiji. Fiji.

June and Beginning of July 2016: Fiji

Mid-July, August, and September 2016: Vanuatu

October - Mid-November 2016: Solomon Islands

Last weeks of November 2016: Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Beginning of December 2016: Hermit Islands of Papua New Guinea

Mid-December 2016: Passage to Palau, Micronesia

December thru March or April 2016: Palau, Micronesia


Year 5: November 2016 – November 2017

December 2016 - April 2017: Palau, Micronesia

April and May 2017: Raja Ampat and Misool Island (all considered West Papua). Indonesia

June and July: Bandas Islands. Then to Flores, Komodo, and Gili Air. Indonesia

July and August 2017: Bali, Indonesia

September 2017: Passage to Borneo (to visit the orangutans) and passage to Singapore

End of September 2017: Singapore

October 2017: West coast of Malaysia

mid-October, November and December 2016: Thailand

Year 6: November 2017 – November 2018

January 2018: Andaman Islands of India. Crossing to Maldives

February 2018:Maldives. Crossing to Oman. Oman

March 2018: Convoy to Yemen. Yemen, Southern Red Sea. Sudan

April 2018: Sudan to Egypt up the Red Sea. Egypt

May 2018: Egypt. Thru Suez Canal to Med. Israel

June 2018: Israel

July 2018: Turkey and Greek Islands

August 2018: Sicily, Aeolian Islands and Sardinia, Italy

September 2018: Northern Sardinia and Barcelona, Spain

October 2018: Barcelona, Spain, to Gibraltar

November 2018: Gibraltar. Passage to Canary Islands. Canary Islands

December 2018: Atlantic Crossing to the southern Caribbean Sea. Most likely heading to the Grenadines and Grenada.

December 2018: Grenada (Close true loop of Circumnavigation)


4 comments:

  1. Wow that's a lot of nice places, except going through Sudan, that's rough...

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    1. Thanks Fred, Yeah, its either go south around the cape or north through the canel... not much choice,

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    2. Ken Goodings s/v Silverheels IIIFebruary 8, 2013 at 8:03 AM

      Have a look at Cp'n Fatty Goodlander's description of his Red Sea flotilla. He was here in Grenada this summer and declared never again. Capr of Good Hope R Bust!

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  2. Ken Goodings s/v Silverheels IIIFebruary 8, 2013 at 8:05 AM

    Sailing west from Grenada as late of Nov/Dec may be a little late. Most folks leave in summer.

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