Production Boats That Have Circumnavigated

[Maine Sail]

Hi All,

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.

The rules:

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. The list will not include boats sold as "blue water", have a reputation as "blue water", have a full keel or cutaway, are known to be stoutly built etc. etc.... East Coast short jaunts, carib etc. does not count. Boats must have crossed either the Pacific or Atlantic oceans or both. Roaring 40's even better.

2- Boats shall have been, for the most part stock. No structural improvements, hull stiffening, chain plate mods, rudder mods, added bulkheads, drastic port light modifications (through bolting ports is fine) etc. etc.. Wind gen, solar, self steering, life rafts, & standard cruising equipment etc. are all fine. This is a list of non "blue water" production boats that have done it.

3- Submissions shall include a link to a blog discussing the circumnavigation or the boats name, make and model and the route they chose.

4- PLEASE DO NOT POST unless you have a boat that meets the above criteria. I want this list to be a tool for folks to use when these discussions come up so they can see that this CAN be done if you are competent and plan accordingly.

5- Posts in this thread that are not relevant and do not include the information will simply be deleted or moved to keep this discussion clean.

 

[Maine Sail]

Beneteau 393

Sailor = Mark J.
Boat = Beneteau 393
Vessel Name = Sea Life
Route Traveled = Circumnavigation
Blog/Web Site = http://www.ourlifeatsea.com/ (warning very slow site)
Last Known Location = Grenada

Personal Statements =

"Sea Life is a much loved Beneteau 393 sailing yacht. Mark and Sea Life have just completed their first circumnavigation of the world. Leaving in 2008 and visiting the Caribbean, Panama, Galapagos, Marquesas, Tonga, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Salalah, Oman, Egypt, Turkey, Greece - The Greek Islands, Italy, France, the Canary Islands and back to the Caribbean via the Atlantic Ocean. We have relaxed under palm trees, anchored in a catagory 5 cyclone, witnessed a Somali Pirate attack, and met wonderful people and seen the worlds most spectacular sights."

 

[Ross]

http://www.latitude38.com/features/circumnav.html
This is a latitude 38 list of boats and crews that have circumnavigated. It reads like an inventory of all of the boat brands we have ever known.

 

[Ed Schenck]

Hunter 34

Hunter 34's

Sailor = Peter Keating
Boat = 1984 Hunter 34
Hail Port = Hobart, Australia
Route Traveled = Sailed the boat across the Atlantic to Lisbon via the Azores, and then down and across the Atlantic to West Indies and Panama and across to Australia and Tasmania. 2007/2008
Blog/Web Site = ?
Current Location = Completed?




Sailor = Richard Bennet,
Boat = Hunter 34
Route Traveled = Atlantic Crossing / Chesapeake to home in England, 2007.
Blog/Web Site = ?
Current Location = Completed?


Relevant Link: http://forums.hunter.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=103943

 

[KD3PC]

Sailor = Liz & Andy Copeland
Boat = Beneteau 40
Vessel Name = Bagheera
Route Traveled = Circumnavigation ?
Blog/Web Site = ?

Sailor = Andy Lepiarczyk
Boat = Beneteau 30
Vessel Name = Mighty Chicken
Route Traveled = Circumnavigation ?
Blog/Web Site = ?

 

[mitiempo]

Sailor = Tony Skidmore
Boat = Albin Vega
Vessel Name = Lorna Doone

Route Traveled = Victoria B.C. to Hawaii, Line Islands, Tonga, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Cairns Australia, Indian Ocean to Reunion, Durban, around the Cape of Good Hope and north to Antigua, Colon and through the Panama Canal to Balboa, to Hawaii completing the circumnavigation and then return to Victoria.

Blog/Web Site = http://americanvega.org/images/Lorna_Doone_pt_1.pdf
Last Known Location = Completed
Personal Statements = Stock boat except for a refit before the trip. Singlehanded and completed in 30 months, from 1994 to 1996.



EDIT: I'll keep this on the list for now but Lorna Doone was structurally modified and, IMHO, rather stoutly built to begin with. Not quite a typical "production" boat by today's standards...

 

[Time Out]

Sailor = Patrick Childress
Boat = Catalina 27
Vessel Name = Juggernaut
Route Traveled = Circumnavigation
Blog/Web Site = http://www.catalinayachts.com/pdf/halfoffame/ACFB0.pdf



EDIT: I'll keep this on the list for now but that boat was FAR from stock and was heavily modified.

 

[Maine Sail]

Guys,

Please feel free to copy & paste the format into your posts as it will make this reference far easier to read for future reference.

Sailor =
Boat =
Vessel Name =
Route Traveled =
Blog/Web Site =
Last Known Location =
Personal Statements =


You don't have to have all the bullets, but the more info the better. We also don't need the sailors full names just a John & Patti C. would be fine..

 

[Sequitur]

Sailor = Mike Harker
Boat = 2007 Hunter 49
Vessel Name = Wanderlust III
Cruise = Circumnavigation 2007-08
Blog/Web Site = http://www.h-tv.com/wanderlust/default.htm

 

[Sequitur]

Sailor = Mike Harker
Boat = Hunter 46
Vessel Name = Wanderlust II
Cruise = Two solo Atlantic crossings, Pacific crossing, etc.
Blog/Web Site = http://www.cruisingworld.com/news/eight-bells

 

[wetass]

Sailor = Martins
Boat = Catalina 42
Vessel Name = Ohana Kai
Route Traveled = West thru Suez & Panama Canal
Blog/Web Site = http://ohanakai.net/adventurefolder/Adventure/adv.html
Last Known Location = Central America?
Personal Statements =

Not sure if they modified the boat though.

 

[wetass]

I knew I had seen a couple stories about Catalina 36s too - Took a few minutes to find:

Sailor = Mortensen
Boat = Catalina 36
Vessel Name = Patriot
Route Traveled = West to Suez & Panama
Blog/Web Site = http://www.catalinayachts.com/pdf/halfoffame/Patriot-HOF-web.pdf
Last Known Location = ?
Personal Statements = No clue on modifications

Sailor = Burns family
Boat = Catalina 36
Vessel Name = WIndancer
Route Traveled = Alaska to NZ
Blog/Web Site = http://www.sailblogs.com/member/winddancer/
Last Known Location = ?
Personal Statements = Supposedly not many

 

[wetass]

And now for a Catalina 36 Failure just to keep folks from saying I'm being selective ;-)

http://www.equipped.com/0698rescue.htm

 

[Maine Sail]

Sailor = Gerry & Nicky Cooper
Boat = 1991 Hunter 433
Vessel Name = Orpailleur
Route Traveled = Jax, FL to Townsville, Australia.
Blog/Web Site = www.orpailleur.blogspot.com
Last Known Location = NZ
Personal Statements =6 months thru Caribbean, then Panama and 6 months thru Pacific to Australia.

 

[gilbdc]

Ocean Crossing in my Hunter 41DS

I just completed making 6500 miles across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean sea in my Hunter 41DS production boat. She performed very well with no structural improvements, in fact, if anything, the addition of solar panels, wind turbine, davits, SSB antennae might be considered a slight reduction in structural integrity. We experienced varied weather and sea conditions including 25-35 knot winds on the nose for over 4 days. We utilized a storm sail that worked perfectly sleaved over the rolled up headsail. We also flew a large a-sail in 15-18 knot tail winds with no problems. I must say, I did not feel I was on a whimpy boat and actually felt very secure with her pounding through some very steep waves and furthermore, when we finally reached the point of coastal cruising, we had much comfort with this production boat. I still have approximately another 8500 miles to go including one more crossing of the Atlantic ocean and can give a better update in 2 years.

Don

 

[Cayennita]

Contessa 25. Idylle 15.5, J-145, J-160, Hylas 54, Pan Oceanic 43, Does Fatty's boat count?

 

[gandalf]

Bob Dobbins Pearson Triton ca. 1988. US to Spain and return.

don't suppose my Vancouver 32 counts but it circumnavigated with previous owner and I sailed it trans Atlantic to Seville in 2004.

 

[wetass]

Sailor = Jean Vaury
Boat = Beneteau First 285
Vessel Name = Little Wing
Route Traveled = US to Italy
Blog/Web Site = http://www.first285.com/atlantic/
Last Known Location = ?
Personal Statements =

 

[Dan Johnson]

The Coronado 27 I owned was originally commissioned in Sausalito by the first owner, sailed out of the San Francisco Bay, down the west coast, through the Panama Canal, across the Carribean, around Florida, up the east coast to the Chesapeake Bay.

After three more owners, I bought it and eventually sold it to a young Navy petty officer out of Norfolk. When last spoken with several years ago, he was planning to head down the intercoastal and cross to the Bahamas.

 

[Windjammer III]

Hunter 460

Sailor = David and Jenny
Boat = Hunter 460, 2000 model.
Route Traveled = Atlantic crossing just completed from New York City to Lisbon via the Azores. Purchased boat in the British Virgin Islands and so have also sailed the Caribbean and east coast of the US. Intend to cruise Med for a few years before taking boat home to Australia.
Blog/Web Site = http://windjammer3.blogspot.com
Current Location = Portugal, Portimao
General Comments = We experienced one gale on the way across and did not feel threatened or less than confident with the boat's ability to handle it. In fact the boat and wind vane coped very well. Windjammer III has had a different rudder fitted ie one with a stainless steel shaft which replaced the carbon fibre/frp-stocked rudder as there had been a number of failures of these type rudders on these designs. The replacement rudder is a stock item and was purchased through Hunter I might add. If I remember correctly, Hunter have had stainless stocked replacement rudders available since around 2005. I also converted the boat to a cutter rig from a sloop rig, which I'm pleased I did.