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Discovery passage
Seven days from the NSYS dock to St. George's Harbour. Southwesterlies leaving Halifax, a squall on day three, the Gulf Stream on day five. Your first week without GPS — with a plastic sextant and HO 249 tables. The ideal introduction: one sight per day, Tier 1 tolerance of ±30 nm.
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Nord
Cape Hatteras, Gulf Stream, turquoise shallows.
From the Outer Banks of the Carolinas to the first Bahamian cays. Seven days navigating the treacherous Hatteras shoals, crossing the Gulf Stream, and approachi...
Sud
Mozambique Channel. Southern Hemisphere entry level.
From Nosy Be or Tulear to Saint-Denis, Réunion — seven days across the Mozambique Channel. The entry-level Southern Hemisphere passage: the Sun culminates to th...
Nord
Europe's first Atlantic crossing, made yours.
From Lisbon or La Coruña to Faial, with Radio Manuel on channel 16. Ten days in the Atlantic depression corridor, with a capricious high pressure system that de...
Sud
The Tasman Sea. 10 days. Southern Tier 2 consolidation.
From Sydney or Fremantle to Auckland — the Tasman Sea crossing. Ten days in often-changing conditions, with a cold front typically passing mid-crossing. The ide...
Nord
Northeast trades, Pacific High, back to the West Coast.
From Hilo or Honolulu to San Francisco Bay along the Pacific High. Fourteen days with steady trade winds that make sighting easy — and a perpetually perfect hor...
Sud
Auckland to Papeete. The Pacific milk run.
From Bay of Islands in New Zealand to Bora-Bora or Papeete. Fourteen days on the tropical South Pacific — the "milk run" passage among circumnavigators, with co...
Sud
The Roaring Forties. Canopus. 18 days.
From La Réunion to Fremantle beneath the Roaring Forties. Eighteen days in the South Indian Ocean — Southern trade winds first, then high-latitude westerlies, a...
Sud
Southern Hemisphere. Azimuths reverse.
From Salvador de Bahia to the Cape Verde archipelago. Twenty-one days in the Southern Hemisphere then the equatorial transition — the first passage where you no...
Sud
The South Atlantic return. Agulhas Current.
From Table Bay to Salvador de Bahia — the westward South Atlantic crossing. Twenty-one days against the Agulhas Current on departure, then the southern trades p...
Nord
Las Palmas → Bermuda. Trades, Gulf Stream, Moon, Polaris.
From the Canaries to Bermuda via the Azores — the classic Atlantic crossing. Twenty-eight days, three VHF fixes, the Gulf Stream, an index correction that jumps...
✦ Equatorial
The ITCZ in reverse. Polaris returns. 18 days.
From Papeete to Honolulu — the reverse equatorial crossing. Eighteen days as the Southern Cross disappears, the ITCZ blocks you again, and Polaris slowly climbs...
Nord
High latitude. Polaris high overhead. Short nights.
Bergen, the Faroes, Iceland, Davis Strait, St. John's. Twenty-one days at high northern latitudes — Polaris climbs to 60° above the horizon and night lasts only...
Nord
The rally route. Perfect trades. 2700 miles.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to St. Lucia — the route sailed every November by the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. Twenty-one days of established trade winds, regula...
Nord
Yokohama or Hong Kong. The North Pacific. 21 days.
From Japan or China to Honolulu via the northern great circle. Twenty-one days on one of the world's greatest water deserts — sparse maritime traffic, Tier 2 ni...
Sud
The Screaming Fifties. Albatross. 28 days.
From Ushuaia to Cape Town via the high southern latitudes — twenty-eight days in the Roaring Forties and Screaming Fifties. The most demanding route in the cata...
✦ Equatorial
Polaris disappears. The ITCZ. The Southern Cross.
From Hilo to Nuku Hiva — an equatorial crossing. Eighteen days as Polaris descends below the horizon and vanishes, the ITCZ creates multiple days with no observ...
✦ Equatorial
The Atlantic diagonal. Two hemispheres.
From Las Palmas to Fortaleza or Salvador — the southwest Atlantic diagonal. Twenty-one days crossing the equator into the Southern Hemisphere. The ITCZ blocks y...
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90 days. 5 oceans. 1 circumnavigation.
Gibraltar, the Canaries, the equator, Cape Horn, the Roaring Forties, the Indian Ocean, Sumatra, the Pacific, Panama — ninety days, five acts, a transformation....