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Issue No. 173
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NORDHAVN 56 MOTORSAILER
An Amazing Evolution of Both Company and Boat
The more time you spend
on the water, the more
time you spend thinking
about your next boat.
So goes the axiom of sailors
everywhere, and Jeff
Leishman, Chief of Design, at
Pacific Asian Enterprises, Inc.
(parent of Nordhavn) has
by captains hired by the owners, but by the owners themselves. Every boat and owner
made it, with nerves to spare.
Now, Jeff Leishman has created a brand new vessel a
slight departure from the typical trawler he is known for,
yet one that is intriguing and
without a doubt, a Nordhavn.
A History of Sailing
To be sure, motorsailers have
been around for quite some
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Contents
Departments
Chartroom Chatter
6 Mini-trawler goes trans-Atlantic
7 Covey Island boatyard fire
8 Boats exempted from industrial
pollution rules
8 Olin Stephens honored
by New York Yacht Club
10 Lawsuit filed in Cynthia Woods sinking
57
Power Voyaging
17 First steps to saving fuel
by John J. Kettlewell
Correspondence
22 From centerboarder to long keel
28
14
Voyaging Tips
57 Get digital broadcasts on an analog TV
by Chuck Husick
Nav Problem
64 Idle Hour circumnavigates
by David Berson
OCTOBER 2008
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OCEAN
NAVIGATOR
MAR I N E NAVIGATION AN D OCEAN VOYAG I NG
Issue #173
October 2008
Features
54
Ocean Voyaging
30 Africa in the Atlantic
The exotic Cape Verde Islands are a
mix of Portuguese and African
culture and are worth a
trans-Atlantic stop
by Andy OGrady
50
36 Circe
A voyaging collaboration
17
by John Snyder
36
40 Bequia
Cold molded voyager
by John Snyder
44 Outbound 52
A capable, comfortable cruiser
by Susan Viets
50 Hodgdon 54
Swiftly and in style
by John Snyder
54 Nordhavn 56MS
44
40
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Chatter
Chartroom
BY JOHN SNYDER
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Chatter
Chartroom
Boats exempted
from industrial
pollution rules
John Snyder
administrative quagmire
from minor discharges,
but also for the National
Marine Manufacturers
Association (NMMA)
and BoatUS and its nearly 650,000 members.
Legislators clearly
responded favorably to
their lobbying efforts.
This is a fabulous victory for common sense and
it just goes to show what
can be done when the
boating public, the
marine industry and its
representatives in Congress row together in a
bipartisan way, said
Nancy Michelman, president of BoatUS.
Key legislators who
supported the bill
included Sens. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Barbara
Boxer (D-Calif.); and
Reps. Jim Oberstar (DMinn.), Steve LaTourette
(R-Ohio), Candice
Miller (R-Mich.) and
Gene Taylor (D-Miss).
Scott Gudes, NMMA
vice president of government relations said, Passage of this legislation is a
testament to what is possible when our community joins forces and speaks
with one voice before key
decision makers.
President Bush signed
the act into law in July.
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Lawsuit filed in
Cynthia Woods
sinking
THE WIDOW OF A TEXAS A&M
SAILOR WHO DIED WHEN THE SAILboat Cynthia Woods sank
last month has filed a lawsuit against Cape Fear
Yacht Works, the builder
of Cynthia Woods. Linda
Stone said in a press conference on July 10, that
she is suing the boatbuilder, saying it will not
provide her with any
information about the
accident.
53-year-old Roger
Stone was killed rescuing
Texas A&M-Galveston
students on Cynthia
Woods. When the keel fell
off the boat, it capsized,
and Stone drowned.
Also named as defendants in the suit are Bruce
Pirates of the
Somali coast
MERCHANT SHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL CREWS ARE NOT THE ONLY
Running Fix
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HMCS Protecteur and
HMCS Calgary will
patrol the Gulf of Aden
SHORE POWER
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Doughty Shipyard in
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spares yacht
builder
THE MIDCOAST MAINE TOWN OF
EAST BOOTHBAY IS RECOVERING
from the July 11 fire that
destroyed the Washburn &
Doughty shipyard and
threatened Hodgdon
Yachts next door. The first
truckload of debris was
removed on July 22 and
debris removal was completed within a week. The
yard said that some of the
laid-off workers have been
recalled and are already laying keels for two new hulls
outside while a new building is being constructed. In
spite of the fire, the venerable shipyard was able to
deliver the articulated tug
barge (ATB) Linda Moran
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Maine Governor John
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Emergency Navigation
Find Your Position and Shape
Your Course at Sea Even If Your
Instruments Fail
By David Burch
International Marine/
McGraw-Hill, 2008,
as the author of nine books
Second Edition
on navigation, Burch is
268 Pages
www.mhprofessional.com uniquely qualified for the
task. The book isnt a surTHERES LITTLE DEBATE THAT
vival or seamanship manual.
MODERN MARINE ELECTRONICS
Rather, its a very readable
make going to sea easier
how-to text that is restricted
and safer for the modern to navigation and meant for
sailor. There is, however, a both the novice and saltiest
dark side to the convenof navigators. Burch walks
ience and all those glowthe reader through teching LEDs in the pilotniques, some simple and
house. Electronics can
others more complex, for
and do fail, often at an
finding your position anyinopportune time. The
where in the world should
consequences of such fail- your nav gadgets fail. Burch
ures can be catastrophic
explains the importance of
whether you are 5 or 500 accurate time keeping, steermiles from shore.
ing by the sun, stars, wind
Our unquestioning
and swells, estimating curfaith on accurate and reli- rent and leeway, finding the
able navigation electronics sun in a fog bank, deterhas led to a dangerous
mining position and speed
complacency that we are
using the most rudimentary
all guilty of to some
of devices and much more.
degree. David Burchs secThe book provides the
ond edition of his book,
tools needed to determine
Emergency Navigation,
position, but will be up to
serves as a wakeup call.
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Cleave Horton
s microprocessors
find their way
into a wide
variety of
marine equipment, just
about every
piece of gear on
a voyaging boat
works smarter
and more efficiently. Unfortunately, however, this electronic proliferation has an
Achilles heel: much marine
technology has become vulnerable to lightning strikes.
Take two examples from
this summer: A 40-foot sloop
struck off Bermuda and a 140foot schooner hit off Block
Island. According to observers
aboard each boat, neither vessel
received a massive direct hit,
instead receiving a lesser side
flash or a pulse of elctromagnetic energy. Yet both boats
experienced major gear failures.
And while some of the damage
occurred in electronic systems
like chart plotters and radios
that you might expect to be
vulnerable, other malfunctions
were more unusual: dead
A lightning
strike to the
mast of Skater,
a Norseman
400 owned by
Cleave Horton,
found the vessels VHF
antenna,
destroying the
antenna rod
and fusing its
coupler base.
Masthead
lights also fell
victim to the
bolt.
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POWER VOYAGING
BY JOHN J. KETTLEWELL
Going slower
Slowing down is the biggest
fuel saver. We all know that, but
what some of us dont know is
that a small reduction in speed
can make for a dramatic reduction in fuel consumption. Traditional displacement yachts
have a maximum hull speed of
roughly 1.34 times the square
root of the waterline length. For
example, a vessel with a 64-foot
waterline has a hull speed of
around 10.7 knots, a 49-foot
waterline can reach about 9.4
knots, and a 36-foot waterline
yields about 8 knots. However,
to get that last knot or so of
speed requires ever increasing
amounts of power.
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Saving fuel
means less
trips to the fuel
dock and less
dipping into
your wallet.
Basic ideas for
saving fuel can
include such
simple things
as cutting back
on speed and
making better
use of ocean
currents.
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pump the next time you fill up. Possible issues with ULSD include lower
energy content, less stability, and
problems with gelling at low temperatures. Fuel manufacturers are putting in additives that will replace
some of the qualities lost with the
reduction in sulfur, but there are
reports of the new fuels causing
maintenance problems with older
diesel engines.
A disadvantage of the new fuels is
that the removal of the sulfur reduces
the energy content of the fuel, resulting in up to a 1 percent reduction in
mileage for truckers. However, this
has yet to be documented in realworld testing on marine engines. This
may be a case where there will be a
clear cut need for proper additives,
especially with older engines, as there
was when lead was removed from
gasoline. What is also clear is that the
cleaner fuel will and already does cost
more, and therefore we need to concentrate further on reducing fuel consumption. Another problem emerging for marine engine owners is the
possibility of biodiesel being added to
your marine fuel. At this time it
appears that boat owners should not
look to biodiesel as a fuel cost saver
without doing a lot of research.
My own non-professional take on
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course of around 30 years of cruising, is that the majority of us dont
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companionway on a plywood
trough, and into the empty keel
box. Ambrose was able to fit down
there, packing layers of lead bars
and jumping out while the next
dump of cement came down. Three
tons of concrete plus 5 tons of lead
equals one heavy keel.
On sailing day, the concrete was
not even fully hardened. It was the
3rd of November, and with ice
floating in the harbor and little balls
of snow sitting around, we hurried
to fuel, interrupting the marina in
the process of removing the floating
docks. I foolishly tried to hose the
ice off the deck, adding water that
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Use a digital
camera image,
instead of a sextant, to get a sun
line of position.
Left, the sun
seen through
sextant shades.
Laptop measurements in
millimeters:
Horizon to lower limb 226mm
Sun diameter 27mm (Measured
horizontally to avoid refraction differences between upper and lower
limb in a vertical measurement.)
(226)(31.46)/(27mm) = 263.3 =
4 23.3 sun hs
Corrected and reduced to an
azimuth 294.8 and intercept 0.4
away (by navigation computer)
(not corrected for temperature and
pressure). The Nautical Almanac
A4 table shows an additional +0.5
correction for a pressure of 29.9 in.
and a temperature of 70 F
iPhoto was used to enlarge and
crop sun images.
Greg Rudzinski is a retired merchant
mariner who lives aboard his Offshore 38,
Nightcap, in Southern California.
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Voyagers analyze
their energy impact
To the editor: There is a great deal of
talk these days about being environmentally green. Kathy and I have
been voyaging for more than 25 years
on the same boat. In the past weve
lived full time on our 35-foot sailboat
Endeavour. More recently, the two of
us have lived aboard the boat six
months of the year.
Dick deGrasse
Electric energy
Our total daily electric energy usage
averages approximately 55 amp-hours
without either heat or air conditioning. To be certain, there are a few days
each winter when heat or air conditioning would make our boat more
comfortable; thankfully, most times
local breezes lessen the need. Voyagers
who anchor out sometimes have diesel
or propane space heaters; very few
have electric air conditioning. Boats
tied to marina slips are frequently
shielded from local breezes
and, as a result, resort to electric heat and air conditioning.
Living on a marina boat is
much less green and uses
resources more closely
approaching land dwellers.
We moor or anchor most
of the time and have all the
necessary modern conveniences except heat or air conditioning. Our daily 55 amphour usage is for refrigeration,
laptop computer, SSB radio,
stereo, lights and computer DVD
viewing. Most voyagers we know use
more electric energy than we do:
about 100 amp-hours each day
depending on the size of their refrigerator/freezer, watermaker, microwave
oven, SSB radio usage, computer use
and hours of TV and DVD viewing.
Our daily use of 55 amp-hours is
equivalent to 1,320 watts per day or
40,000 watt-hours (40 kilowatt hours
kwh) of electricity each month.
One hundred amp-hours is equivalent
to 2,400 watts per day or 72 kwh per
month. An average house on shore
uses between 200 to 300 kwh of electricity each month not including electric hot water heating. Even at 100
Even though solar panels cant provide for all the needs of a voyaging
boat, a panel or two can make a difference in reducing your fuel budget.
amp-hours per day the modern voyager uses about one-third of the electricity of homes on land.
Sources of energy
There are five sources of energy on
voyaging boats: gasoline, diesel,
propane, solar and wind.
Solar: Our 64-watt solar panel provides 15 to 20 amp-hours of electricity
each day in southern waters. We plan
to exchange our present panel for a
130-watt panel because the new higher output panel will fit in the same
space as the 5-year-old, 64-watt panel
and provide twice the electric energy.
Wind: Wind generation contribution to battery charging is always an
unknown. Most days our wind generators daily energy contribution is less
than 10 amp-hours unless the wind
blows continuously over 15 knots. A
few days each season our 400-watt
Ampair wind generator will top off
the batteries when the wind blows 15
knots or more for at least 24 hours.
Gasoline: Gasoline is used to
power our 3.5-hp 4-cycle outboard
motor and our 2,000-watt Honda
generator. Since solar and wind systems cant meet our daily electricity
budget we rely on the gasoline generator. The Honda runs approximately
one hour each day and produces 35 to
40 amp-hours via our Heart 1000watt battery charger/inverter. We
make at least three trips ashore each
week in our 9-foot inflatable dinghy
using the 3.5-hp outboard. The
Honda uses about 0.5 gallons of gasoline each day to top off our 330-amphour battery bank. Occasionally, we
use the Honda to power our vacuum
cleaner, heat gun to strip varnish, and
other applications we do not wish to
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months: $636.
Dick deGrasse is a USCG veteran
and holds a USCG master license for
power and sail. He and his wife Kathy
live on the 34-foot sloop in southern
waters in the winter and summer at
their home on Islesboro, Maine.
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OCEAN VOYAGING
by Andy OGrady
The exotic
Cape Verde
Islands are a
mix of
Portuguese
and African
culture and
are worth a
transAtlantic stop
Top, The boom
of Andy
OGrady and
Ulla Norlanders 42-foot
gaff cutter
Balaena with
the mountains
of So Vicente
Island in the
background.
Andy OGrady
Lucky meeting
Sail on the port bow, I called
to Ulla. Just then the VHF
came to life: Balna, this is
Skylax. Balna and Skylax had
departed from opposite sides of
the Canary Islands group a day
apart and had chatted daily on
SSB radio. The passage went
smoothly for both boats, fast
sailing on a reach in the predominantly easterly winds.
Even though we were sailing
the same waters, at any one
time we experienced quite different wind strengths. On the
whole it seemed that Balna,
starting further west, had fresh-
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Lu Heikell
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Above, the
cutter Balaena
underway in
the trades, sailing toward the
Cape Verdes.
Left, the Bay of
Porto Grande
and the port of
Mindelo, So
Vincente.
Shops and
services are
within an easy
dinghy ride of
the yacht
anchorage.
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Above, fishing
boats pulled
ashore on one
of the more
exposed
beaches on
the north side
of So Vincente.
The Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa, arent visited by voyagers as frequently as the Azores or Canaries,
but the islands are worth a visit to see a developing African country with friendly people and a distinct culture.
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passage. Once south of the equator, the trade winds blow from
accessible.
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Balaena and
Rod and Lu
Heikells
Cardinal 46
Skylax lie in
the anchorage
at Mindelo.
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Mindelo
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Five new
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builder
Circe
A voyaging collaboration
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he latest collaborative
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sailboat Circe. The designing and
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of a group effort by the yachts owners, designers and builders. The
Fontaine Design Group of
Portsmouth, R.I., drew the elegant
the plans for the offshore pilothouse
sloop, which is vaguely reminiscent
of an earlier Fontaine design,
Amelia3. State-of-the-art fabricator
and boatbuilder Goetz Custom
Boats of Bristol, R.I., built the hull,
house, deck and structural bulk-
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deck block aft of the mast collar
then through a sheet stopper to a
dedicated electric winch located on
the starboard side of the coach top.
The yachts engine room is
designed as a watertight space. It is
accessible via a watertight door at
the aft end of the galley and watertight door in the aft shower which
has a flush-mounted handle. The
doors are A-30-rated aluminum and
were built by Pacific Coast Marine
Industries of Everett, Wash. There is
also overhead engine room access
via the cockpit sole in the form of a
soft patch for potential removal of
main engine. The engine room is
insulated with a system designed by
Novotechnik in the Netherlands.
The system is a combination of
materials that include Iso-Cor 3mm
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Stephens
builder
Bequia
John Snyder
At 90 LOA Bequia
is the Brooklin Boat
Yards largest
project to date.
Inset, Brooklin Boat
Yard owner Steve
White has received
several inquiries
from abroad. In
hopes of more
projects like Bequia
the yard has
increased its Travel
Lift capacity.
Alison Langley
Cold-molded classic
n the fall of 2007 Brooklin
Boat Yard owner, Steve White,
thought that it might be time
to upgrade the yards Travel Lift
to accommodate some of the larger
boats stored at the yard. He purchased a refit 80-ton capacity rig and
rebuilt the Travel Lift piers and
could not have done so at a better
time.
Two years prior, designers Robert
Stephens and Paul Waring of Brooklin Boat Yard Design Associates had
begun design work for a 90-foot
yawl with world cruising capability.
BY JOHN SNYDER
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lent visibility over the house. The side
decks are wide and unobstructed.
Perhaps the yachts most elegant feature is the bright-finished deckhouse;
it rounds out the yachts classic
styling with what is essentially an elevated saloon with large windows,
comfortable seating, a spacious chart
table and a modern electronics panel.
Bequias rig is carbon fiber and
was built by Southern Spars of New
Zealand. The sails are 3DL from
North Sails. The main engine is a
Cummins 300 hp diesel with a 1:9:1
gearbox and a three-blade folding
propeller.
Although a complex yacht in
terms of systems, the yachts classic
looks and feel have been maintained
thanks to the engineering and design
work of Stephens and Waring
Bequia
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Southern Spars, NZ
North Sails - 3DL
Hull
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M No swaging, no
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M Tough, waterproof, reusable
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M Stiff 34 LDPE
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Communications
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no discernible signal
losses, even when
used with a wellgrounded backstay
aboard a steelhulled vessel. The
antenna...can bang
out a signal just as
though it were suspended in mid-air.
Sail Magazine
October 2005
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AMEL 54
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QUALITY IN CONSTRUCTION. Our exclusive one piece/full monocoque construction eliminates the typically
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less complex in its design, build, systems engineering and finish. One
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Vee-boom with lazy jacks. The deck
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Reckmann hydraulic head sail
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P R E V I O U S L Y
O W N E D
NORDHAV N 55 ('05)
Y A C H T S
NORDHAV N 62 ('01)
Asking $1,499,000
Asking $1,675,000
NORDHAV N 55 ('07)
Asking: $1,899,000
For details contact
Dave Balfour at
401-293-0910
Asking: $945,000
For details contact
Jeff Merrill at
949-496-4933
NORDHAV N 50 ('04)
Inisfail is a one of a
kind. She comes with
hydraulic windlass, bow &
stern thrusters, emergency bilge pump, custom
interior, teak and holly
throughout. Located in
Massachusetts.
Asking: $950,000
For details contact
Ray Danet at 772-223-6331
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47
47
47
47
47
46
43
43
40
40
35
Asking: $1,100,000
sistership
NORDHAV N 57 ('02)
(93)
$995,000
(06)
$1,050,000 euros vat paid
(05)
$795,000
(04) $1,325,000 NZ tax included
(03)
$895,000
(03)
$905,000
(00)
$715,000
(06)
Pending
(05)
$799,000
(07)
$665,000
(00)
$465,000
(04)
$459,000
NORDHAV N 46 ('00)
New to the market, Sea
Once is a lightly used
Nordhavn 46 that is ready
to cruise. Over 30k in
updates have recently been
done. Located in Rhode
Island.
A D D I T I O N A L
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
Nordhavn
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Nordhavn
NORDHAV N 47 ('04)
Dance is a thoroughbred
throughout and will delight
you as you cast off for
adventure to wherever you
want to go. Located in
Rhode Island.
Asking: $695,000
Dave Balfour at 401-2930910 or Jeff Merrill at
494-496-4933
L I S T I N G S
Nordhavn 35
Hatteras 75
Alden 51
Viking 48
Ocean Alexander 43
Beneteau 42
Saberline 36
Chaparral
Catalina 36
Glacier Bay 34
Chaparral 27
(01)
(88)
(95)
(05)
(00)
(05)
(98)
(98)
(03)
(06)
(98)
As a division of P.A.E., the developer and builder of Nordhavn trawlers, we are intimately familiar with each vessel on the market.
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$299,000
$850,000
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Nordhavn Yachts NE 222 Narragansett Blvd. Portsmouth, RI 02871 Tel: (401) 293-0910 Fax: (401) 293-0914 nesales@nordhavn.com
Nordhavn Yachts SE 600 NW Dixie Hwy Stuart, FL 34994 Tel: (772) 223-6331 Fax: (772) 223-3631 sesales@nordhavn.com
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he dream of sailing
around the world
has inspired countless
generations of people.
Some are older and
already established in
the world, and then
there are others who,
like Dwight Long, take
their youthful enthusiasm and make a go of it.
Long was coming of
age in the early 1930s
during
the
Great
Depression. His family
was middle class but
from an early age Long
developed the work
ethic and began buying
and fixing up small boats at age
seven. He would buy old rowboats and other small craft,
apply a coat a paint and maybe
some varnish and turn around
and resell the boat only to buy
another. By the time he was 20
he had done this 14 times and
was getting pretty good at
understanding just what was
good and bad in a boat. It was
about this time that he read an
article by the great French circumnavigator, Alain Gerbault
and got into his head that he
would like to sail around the
world. His parents wanted him
to go to college, so Long
enrolled all the while working in his own landscaping
business so that he could save
When he
returned to the
U.S. just before
WWII, Dwight
Long was the
youngest sailor,
at 23, to circumnavigate
until Robin Lee
Graham accomplished the
feat at age 16.
Above is his
30-foot ketch
Idle Hour.
Answer
A. 21 hrs. 59 min.
B. Ho is 82 23.6
C. Latitude is S 15 25.2
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