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10 Best Sailboats For Circumnavigation
Circumnavigation means to successfully navigate around any sort of landmasses such as an island or continent. What are the best sailboats for circumnavigation?
World Circumnavigation Routes for Sailboats
Our sailing circumnavigation route took us four years and three months to travel all the way around the world. You can read the summary of our world circumnavigation for more details.
7 Best-Known Routes for Sailing Around the World (with Maps)
Route planning is among the most crucial bits of preparation, especially when it comes to circumnavigation. This article will give you seven of the most commonly used routes for sailing around the world. Some routes have been sailed many times by many people, others are obscure or even dangerous.
Single-Handed Sailing Circumnavigation: The Voyage of Fathom
From 2016 to 2020 I sailed single-handed around the world on 'Fathom', a Vancouver 28 pocket cruising boat after leaving my job, career and land life in my w...
A Nonstop Solo Circumnavigation
I saved up for a few years to buy a Westsail 32, a boat with a proven track record of seaworthiness and one that was within my means to adapt to a challenging solo circumnavigation (see Boat Modifications below). I also did a few solo trips out of Florida and the BVI, and took her north to Maine by myself in early 2017.
Best Sailboats For Circumnavigation
Circumnavigation is an undeniably enjoyable experience made even more fun with the right sailboats. Read on to find the best sailboats for circumnavigation!
Owners' advice: Top tips for world circumnavigation
Enso's owners jumped into a circumnavigation with both feet, setting off immediately after taking delivery of their new 25 metre Oyster 825. You could say their shakedown cruise was the Oyster World Rally. For the wife, it was a jump into the deep end as her previous sailing experience amounted to a week in Sardinia.
Best boats for circumnavigation: Your ultimate guide
Best boats for circumnavigation: Navigating the globe with confidence Discover the ultimate vessels for circumnavigating the world and make your dream of sailing around the globe a reality.
Circumnavigations
CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS. A Nordhavn 40 holds the world record for the fastest circumnavigation by a production power boat of any size. Salvation II is the first production power boat ever to circumnavigate the globe. Ghanim al-Othman, on board Othmani was the first Arab to circumnavigate. Othmani completed the circumnavigation with paravanes only.
Circumnavigation: Sailing the globe's endless horizon
Circumnavigation, in its simplest definition, refers to the act of traveling around the Earth's surface, typically by water. It entails sailing or navigating a vessel across the world's oceans, crossing various meridians and longitudes until the journey eventually returns to the starting point.
Everything You Need to Sail Around the World (by an expert)
A Reliable Bluewater Sailboat Let's get this out of the way first - you don't need a large boat to circumnavigate the world. Larger boats are comfier and faster, but technically not necessary. The smallest sailboat to circle the globe had around 21 feet. We have written many times about small boats that are great liveaboards, so it is possible.
How To Sail Around The World (With Timeline and Examples)
To get some perspective on the matter here are some data; The fastest boat to sail around the world is a trimaran, and the shortest time recorded is 40days. If you are on a sailing cruiser, it will most likely take you somewhere between 1.5 to 5 years until you have reached a full circumnavigation.
Sailing Around The World
There's something about sailing around the world that captures the imagination and inspires. For some, it's the reason for learning to sail in the first place. Others only start to think about global circumnavigation as their skills and experience grow. Regardless of what motivates you to circumnavigate, one thing remains true.
Sailing around the world: Cruising couples' top tips for a dream voyage
A full circumnavigation for most, 438 days sailing for those who'd completed it in a single World ARC loop. Some 38 yachts started in St Lucia in January 2018, 16 were gathered in Grenada this ...
Cruising: Solo Circumnavigators
Now 81-year-old Australian Bill Hatfield is winding down yet another epic circumnavigation—westabout from Queensland, Australia, solo, nonstop and unassisted, against the prevailing winds and currents. At press time, sailing his Northshore 38, L'Eau Commotion, Hatfield was expected to make landfall at Southport, Queensland in mid-February.
Everything you need to know about a circumnavigation
Oyster Yachts, a luxury British sailing yacht builder, invites sailors and adventurers alike to ask their hottest circumnavigation questions to a panel of circumnavigators and bluewater sailing experts at a live Q&A session discussing the Oyster World Rally.
Szymon Kuczynski Solo and Non-Stop around the World
Szymon Kuczynski secured a new world record for the smallest yacht to circumnavigate the globe singlehanded and unaided, when he returned to Mayflower Marina in Plymouth on Thursday 17th May.
Atom Voyages
Across Islands and Oceans. Subtitled A Journey Alone Around the World by Sail and by Foot, in this first book of James Baldwin's circumnavigation stories, he recounts his shoe-string adventure sailing alone around the world on his 28-foot Pearson Triton sailboat, Atom. Along the way he walks across every island and climbs their highest peaks.
Laura Dekker: The Youngest Circumnavigator
In August 2010, Laura began her circumnavigation from Gibraltar, sailing aboard Guppy, her 11-meter, two-masted ketch. Her journey encompassed traversing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, braving the treacherous waters of the Torres Strait and South Africa's roaring forties, all to return to her starting point on January 21, 2012.
Circumnavigation: Alone Around the World— part 1
Circumnavigation: Alone Around the World— part 1. On July 28, 1999, my wife, Debbie, and I cut the dock lines on our Bob Perry-designed Baba 40 ketch, Sailors Run, at the Long Branch Marina in Washington's South Puget Sound, and sailed away to explore the world under sail: an ambition I had nurtured since I first set foot on a sailboat ...
5 best small sailboats for sailing around the world
Small sailboats are the ticket to big dreams on a small budget. Here are our five favorite small blue water sailboats for sailing around the world.
Around the world sailing record
Around the world sailing record. IDEC 3, current outright record holder at 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds. The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan 's expedition, including the last captain Juan Sebastián Elcano who completed their ...
Production Boats That Have Circumnavigated
I would like to start a list of links to known production boats, Hunter, Catalina, Beneteau, Jeanneau, O'day etc. that have gone around without serious modifications. 1- Production boats that have circumnavigated this list CAN include other than the above mentioned vessels but they MUST be similarly designed and constructed to the mentioned boats.
Teen breaks record in electric boat challenge around UK coastline
An 18-year-old has become the first person to circumnavigate the entire coastline of Great Britain in an electric boat. Skipper Harry Besley, from Taunton, Somerset, along with crew and his cousin ...
Maine's Cole Brauer becomes first American woman to race sailboat alone
When she and her 40-foot sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old Boothbay, Maine, resident and New York native became the first American woman to race nonstop around the ...
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Circumnavigation means to successfully navigate around any sort of landmasses such as an island or continent. What are the best sailboats for circumnavigation?
Our sailing circumnavigation route took us four years and three months to travel all the way around the world. You can read the summary of our world circumnavigation for more details.
Route planning is among the most crucial bits of preparation, especially when it comes to circumnavigation. This article will give you seven of the most commonly used routes for sailing around the world. Some routes have been sailed many times by many people, others are obscure or even dangerous.
From 2016 to 2020 I sailed single-handed around the world on 'Fathom', a Vancouver 28 pocket cruising boat after leaving my job, career and land life in my w...
I saved up for a few years to buy a Westsail 32, a boat with a proven track record of seaworthiness and one that was within my means to adapt to a challenging solo circumnavigation (see Boat Modifications below). I also did a few solo trips out of Florida and the BVI, and took her north to Maine by myself in early 2017.
Circumnavigation is an undeniably enjoyable experience made even more fun with the right sailboats. Read on to find the best sailboats for circumnavigation!
Enso's owners jumped into a circumnavigation with both feet, setting off immediately after taking delivery of their new 25 metre Oyster 825. You could say their shakedown cruise was the Oyster World Rally. For the wife, it was a jump into the deep end as her previous sailing experience amounted to a week in Sardinia.
Best boats for circumnavigation: Navigating the globe with confidence Discover the ultimate vessels for circumnavigating the world and make your dream of sailing around the globe a reality.
CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS. A Nordhavn 40 holds the world record for the fastest circumnavigation by a production power boat of any size. Salvation II is the first production power boat ever to circumnavigate the globe. Ghanim al-Othman, on board Othmani was the first Arab to circumnavigate. Othmani completed the circumnavigation with paravanes only.
Circumnavigation, in its simplest definition, refers to the act of traveling around the Earth's surface, typically by water. It entails sailing or navigating a vessel across the world's oceans, crossing various meridians and longitudes until the journey eventually returns to the starting point.
A Reliable Bluewater Sailboat Let's get this out of the way first - you don't need a large boat to circumnavigate the world. Larger boats are comfier and faster, but technically not necessary. The smallest sailboat to circle the globe had around 21 feet. We have written many times about small boats that are great liveaboards, so it is possible.
To get some perspective on the matter here are some data; The fastest boat to sail around the world is a trimaran, and the shortest time recorded is 40days. If you are on a sailing cruiser, it will most likely take you somewhere between 1.5 to 5 years until you have reached a full circumnavigation.
There's something about sailing around the world that captures the imagination and inspires. For some, it's the reason for learning to sail in the first place. Others only start to think about global circumnavigation as their skills and experience grow. Regardless of what motivates you to circumnavigate, one thing remains true.
A full circumnavigation for most, 438 days sailing for those who'd completed it in a single World ARC loop. Some 38 yachts started in St Lucia in January 2018, 16 were gathered in Grenada this ...
Now 81-year-old Australian Bill Hatfield is winding down yet another epic circumnavigation—westabout from Queensland, Australia, solo, nonstop and unassisted, against the prevailing winds and currents. At press time, sailing his Northshore 38, L'Eau Commotion, Hatfield was expected to make landfall at Southport, Queensland in mid-February.
Oyster Yachts, a luxury British sailing yacht builder, invites sailors and adventurers alike to ask their hottest circumnavigation questions to a panel of circumnavigators and bluewater sailing experts at a live Q&A session discussing the Oyster World Rally.
Szymon Kuczynski secured a new world record for the smallest yacht to circumnavigate the globe singlehanded and unaided, when he returned to Mayflower Marina in Plymouth on Thursday 17th May.
Across Islands and Oceans. Subtitled A Journey Alone Around the World by Sail and by Foot, in this first book of James Baldwin's circumnavigation stories, he recounts his shoe-string adventure sailing alone around the world on his 28-foot Pearson Triton sailboat, Atom. Along the way he walks across every island and climbs their highest peaks.
In August 2010, Laura began her circumnavigation from Gibraltar, sailing aboard Guppy, her 11-meter, two-masted ketch. Her journey encompassed traversing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, braving the treacherous waters of the Torres Strait and South Africa's roaring forties, all to return to her starting point on January 21, 2012.
Circumnavigation: Alone Around the World— part 1. On July 28, 1999, my wife, Debbie, and I cut the dock lines on our Bob Perry-designed Baba 40 ketch, Sailors Run, at the Long Branch Marina in Washington's South Puget Sound, and sailed away to explore the world under sail: an ambition I had nurtured since I first set foot on a sailboat ...
Small sailboats are the ticket to big dreams on a small budget. Here are our five favorite small blue water sailboats for sailing around the world.
Around the world sailing record. IDEC 3, current outright record holder at 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds. The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan 's expedition, including the last captain Juan Sebastián Elcano who completed their ...
I would like to start a list of links to known production boats, Hunter, Catalina, Beneteau, Jeanneau, O'day etc. that have gone around without serious modifications. 1- Production boats that have circumnavigated this list CAN include other than the above mentioned vessels but they MUST be similarly designed and constructed to the mentioned boats.
An 18-year-old has become the first person to circumnavigate the entire coastline of Great Britain in an electric boat. Skipper Harry Besley, from Taunton, Somerset, along with crew and his cousin ...
When she and her 40-foot sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old Boothbay, Maine, resident and New York native became the first American woman to race nonstop around the ...