Elapsed Time: 16 Months
Hours at the Helm: over 1000
Nautical Miles Logged: approx 25,000

I began in the San Blas islands of Panama (on the Caribbean coast) on Dec 31, 2007 and proceeded to sail west through the Panama Canal. After many long passages (one taking 32 days), stunning atolls and Polynesian feasts, I finally arrived in Cairns, Australia on July 27, 2008.

On August 22, I passed through the Torres Strait, the channel of Australia's northernmost point, Cape York, thus entering the Indian Ocean. After bouncing and surfing through this trecherous ocean (often at speeds of over 15 knots) I rounded the Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape of Storms, arriving in Cape Town on November 22.

Setting sail on January 2, 2009, I began the crossing of the Southern Atlantic with a quick stop in St. Helena on the way to Brazil. After following the Brazilian coast, crossing the equator, and returning to the Caribbean, I finally sailed back to the San Blas Islands, completing a circumnavigation of the planet by sailboat on April 20, 2009.

Route / Itinerary
Jan 2008	San Blas Islands, Panama
Feb 2008	Panama Canal, Perlas Archipelago
Mar 2008	Galapagos Islands
Apr 2008	IN TRANSIT Galapagos to Marquesas
May 2008	French Polynesia (Tahiti, Bora Bora) and Cook Islands (Suwarrow)
June 2008	Tonga and Fiji
July 2008	Vanuatu
Aug 2008	Cairns, Torres Strait and Darwin (Australia)
Sept 2008	Indonesia (Bali), Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling Atoll
Oct 2008	Rodrigues, Mauritius and Reunion
Nov 2008	Richard's Bay and Durban, South Africa
Dec 2008	Cape Town, South Africa
Jan 2009	St. Helena
Feb 2009	Brazil
Mar 2009	Windward Islands (Tobago, Grenada, Grenadines, St. Lucia, Martinique)
Apr 2009	San Blas Islands and Panama Canal