East or West around?
All hands--
Westabout was the direction chosen by eight of the 11 trawler yachts
or motor yachts under 100 feet listed in the current edition of
Circumnavigator as having voyaged around the world:
Albert Gowen, Speejacks, Custom 98', 1921-22, First yacht without
sails to circumnavigate East to West
Don & Ann Gumpertz, Westward,
Custom 86', 1970-76, First yacht without sails to circumnavigate
West to East
Eilco Kasemier, Bylgia II, Custom 39' 1/2", 1983-84,
First trawler yacht to circumnavigate, and still the smallest, East
to West
David Scott Cowper, Mabel E. Holland, Converted
lifeboat 42', 1984-85, First singlehanded circumnavigation under
power, East to West
David Scott Cowper, Mabel E. Holland, Converted lifeboat 42',
1986-1990, Singlehanded circumnavigation via the Northwest Passage,
East to West
Bruce & Joan Kessler,
Zopilote, Delta 70, 70', 1990-93, First U.S. trawler yacht to
circumnavigate, East to West
Jim & Susy Sink, Salvation II, Nordhavn 46,
45' 9", 1990-95, First production trawler yacht to circumnavigate,
West to East
Ghanim Al-Othman, Othmani, Nordhavn 46, 45" 9",
1998-99, First Arab trawler yacht to circumnavigate, West to East
Jim Leishman et al, Nordhavn, Nordhavn 40,
39' 9", 2001-02, Smallest production trawler yacht to
circumnavigation, East to West
Heidi & Wolfgang Hass, Kanaloa, Nordhavn 46, 45' 9", 1996-2002, First
German trawler yacht to circumnavigate, East to West
Don & Alicia Halleberg, Alicia Dawn, Hatteras, 77', 2000-03, Two
years and seven months, out of Fort Lauderdale, East to West. In
February, they started a second circumnavigation, also westabout.
Of the yachts currently in the midst of intended circumnavigations,
all but Idlewild, as far as I know, are headed westabout.
--Georgs
Georgs Kolesnikovs
Editor and Publisher, Circumnavigator
http://www.nordhavn.com/circumnavigator/cirumnavigator.php4
Georgs.. Unless something didn't get pasted right.. I'm counting 7 of the 11 that went east to west.
John Ford
On Thursday, April 20, 2006, at 11:06AM, Georgs Kolesnikovs georgs@circumnavigatormag.com wrote:
All hands--
Westabout was the direction chosen by eight of the 11 trawler yachts
or motor yachts under 100 feet listed in the current edition of
Circumnavigator as having voyaged around the world:
Albert Gowen, Speejacks, Custom 98', 1921-22, First yacht without
sails to circumnavigate East to West
Don & Ann Gumpertz, Westward,
Custom 86', 1970-76, First yacht without sails to circumnavigate
West to East
Eilco Kasemier, Bylgia II, Custom 39' 1/2", 1983-84,
First trawler yacht to circumnavigate, and still the smallest, East
to West
David Scott Cowper, Mabel E. Holland, Converted
lifeboat 42', 1984-85, First singlehanded circumnavigation under
power, East to West
David Scott Cowper, Mabel E. Holland, Converted lifeboat 42',
1986-1990, Singlehanded circumnavigation via the Northwest Passage,
East to West
Bruce & Joan Kessler,
Zopilote, Delta 70, 70', 1990-93, First U.S. trawler yacht to
circumnavigate, East to West
Jim & Susy Sink, Salvation II, Nordhavn 46,
45' 9", 1990-95, First production trawler yacht to circumnavigate,
West to East
Ghanim Al-Othman, Othmani, Nordhavn 46, 45" 9",
1998-99, First Arab trawler yacht to circumnavigate, West to East
Jim Leishman et al, Nordhavn, Nordhavn 40,
39' 9", 2001-02, Smallest production trawler yacht to
circumnavigation, East to West
Heidi & Wolfgang Hass, Kanaloa, Nordhavn 46, 45' 9", 1996-2002, First
German trawler yacht to circumnavigate, East to West
Don & Alicia Halleberg, Alicia Dawn, Hatteras, 77', 2000-03, Two
years and seven months, out of Fort Lauderdale, East to West. In
February, they started a second circumnavigation, also westabout.
Of the yachts currently in the midst of intended circumnavigations,
all but Idlewild, as far as I know, are headed westabout.
--Georgs
Georgs Kolesnikovs
Editor and Publisher, Circumnavigator
http://www.nordhavn.com/circumnavigator/cirumnavigator.php4
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John Ford wrote
Georgs.. Unless something didn't get pasted right.. I'm counting 7 of the
11 that went east to west.
Isn't East to West "Westabout"?
Roger Bingham
France