Another trawler yacht has made the passage to paradise in the South Pacific: http://www.noonsite.com/Countries/FrenchPolynesia Bacchus, a Nordhavn 47 owned by Mark Johnson of Las Vegas, took 19 days to make a nonstop transit of 2,829 nautical miles to the Marquesas from Acapulco, Mexico. Average fuel burn was 2.7 gal/hr at 1, 400 RPM for the first half and 1,500 RPM the second half. Average speed was 6.2 knots. Bacchus is in Samoa now. She will call at Tonga and Fiji before heading to New Zealand for the austral summer. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Editor and Publisher, Circumnavigator http://www.circumnavigatormagazine.com