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All hands-- I'm getting ready to update the honor roll of circumnavigators under power for Circumnavigator 2006-07 that will be published this fall. Since the original list below was published, I've heard only of one possible circumnavigation by a Hatteras motor yacht and the successful completion of a circumnavigation by Spirit of Cardiff, a 33-foot hard-bottom inflatable. There are several trawler yachts in the final stages of voyaging around the world, and a dozen or more under way. Has anyone heard of a circumnavigation than I may have missed? --Georgs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name, Country, Name of vessel, Make or type, LOA, Dates -- Albert Gowen, U.S., Speejacks, Custom, 98',1921-1922 -- Don & Ann Gumpertz, U.S., Westward, Custom, 86', 1970-1976 -- Eilco Kasemier, Holland, Bylgia II, Custom, 39' 1/2", 1983-1984 -- David Scott Cowper, England, Mabel E. Holland, Converted lifeboat, 42', 1984-1985 -- David Scott Cowper, England, Mabel E. Holland, Converted lifeboat, 42', 1986-1990 -- Bruce & Joan Kessler, U.S., Zopilote, Delta 70, 70', 1990-1993 -- Jim & Susy Sink, U.S., Salvation II, Nordhavn 46, 45' 9", 1990-1995 -- Ghanim Al-Othman, Kuwait, Othmani, Nordhavn 46, 45" 9", 1998-1999 -- Jim Leishman et al, U.S., Nordhavn, Nordhavn 40, 39' 9", 2001-2002 -- Heidi & Wolfgang Hass, Germany, Kanaloa, Nordhavn 46, 45' 9", 1996-2002 Other noteworthy circumnavigations under power: -- Ben Carlin in Half-Safe, an amphibious Jeep -- Bryan Peterson of the U.S. in Sunrider, a modified Zodiac 24 -- Jock Wishart in Cable & Wireless Adventurer, a custom 115-foot trimaran Originally published in Circumnavigator 2003, a magazine for and about Nordhavn sponsored by Pacific Asian Enterprises and produced by Water World Productions. -- http://www.circumnavigatormagazine.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------