How long does it take to complete one circumnavigation?

[C420sailor]

Man, the thought of being gone that long gives me anxiety. A few weeks on a sailboat is about my limit.

Longest I’ve spent at sea was 6-7 months, on an aircraft carrier. It was an incredible adventure, but I was ready to go home.

I spent over two years living in Japan. Cool experience, but it was really weird (and hard) coming home to see everyone a few years older and to have missed so much.

How do y’all handle that? Hats off to you.

[GordMay]

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Lem.


I can’t believe this is the first year I’m not going to Fiji, because of COVID-19…
Normally, I don’t go, because I’m poor.

[belizesailor]

Originally Posted by MatthLE

Gents;



My goal is to set the record for the longest slowest most rest stops circumnavigation ever. The early explorers took years, sounds like a good goal.



Respectfully



Lem

Your on! Im 17 years into mine!

[belizesailor]

So here's a semi-technical question. Ive covered most of the GOM and Caribbean basin in a combination of my boats and OPB. Ive crossed the Atlantic on OPB. Ive cruised some of the USA E & W coasts on OPB. Ive sailed a little in NZ on OPB. Im scheduled to cross the Pacific next year on OPB.

If I put all these bits of string together into a a circumnav route, does that count?

[carstenb]

Originally Posted by belizesailor

So here's a semi-technical question. Ive covered most of the GOM and Caribbean basin in a combination of my boats and OPB. Ive crossed the Atlantic on OPB. Ive cruised some of the USA E & W coasts on OPB. Ive sailed a little in NZ on OPB. Im scheduled to cross the Pacific next year on OPB.

If I put all these bits of string together into a a circumnav route, does that count?

if it floats your boat - yes it counts - but who cares?

[Joh.Ghurt]

Originally Posted by belizesailor

So here's a semi-technical question.[...]
If I put all these bits of string together into a a circumnav route, does that count?

Usually to count as a circumnavigation you have to cross all meridians, cross the equator and sail at least 21600 nm before returning to your departure point or cross your own track on the way out.

That's why Laura Dekker's trip doesn't count, she just did the all meridians part.

[belizesailor]

Originally Posted by Joh.Ghurt

Usually to count as a circumnavigation you have to cross all meridians, cross the equator and sail at least 21600 nm before returning to your departure point or cross your own track on the way out.

That's why Laura Dekker's trip doesn't count, she just did the all meridians part.

Interesting, so she never crossed the equator? And thus likely sailed less than 21, 600nm?

Ive probably made a pretty solid down payment on the mileage, but I dont log it anymore.

I will keep those parameters in mind while assembling my bits of string.

Im actually planning to sell my boats soon, so if I piece together a circumnav it wil be finished on OPB.

[belizesailor]

Originally Posted by chrisr

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i like your thinking ! however technically, after how many years in one place does a circumnavigation cease to be 'in progress', and re-start ??

hmmmm ???

cheers,

Uh oh, if there is such a rule this could present a problem. Ive stopped along the way and started businesses, gotten residencey in a few countries, built homes, lived ashore. All made substantial contributions toward slowest circumnav record.

Is there such a restriction on duration in one spot? Or "currency", meaning after so many years the leg doesnt count?

[AiniA]

We did it in five years, friends took 21. in some ways it becomes inevitable if you like to sail off the wind. You could view a circumnavigation as a series of hops that take advantage of the prevailing winds - for most people westward in the trades, for the hearty eastbound via the capes.

[belizesailor]

Originally Posted by C420sailor

Man, the thought of being gone that long gives me anxiety. A few weeks on a sailboat is about my limit.

Longest I’ve spent at sea was 6-7 months, on an aircraft carrier. It was an incredible adventure, but I was ready to go home.

I spent over two years living in Japan. Cool experience, but it was really weird (and hard) coming home to see everyone a few years older and to have missed so much.

How do y’all handle that? Hats off to you.

Never given it a thought. We usually spend 3 - 6 months per year on the boat...always seems too short to me, but there are lots of other things we enjoy doing ashore too so want to allocate some time to that.

Im not missing a thing, living life wherever I happen to be (today thats Guatemala). Ive been a "digital nomad" all my adult life (decades before that was even a thing) so maybe that helps as Ive rarely had a strong connection to any on place.

Maybe its that connection with "home" that you miss.

By contrast when people ask me where Im from, I usually answer that I dont know anymore.

[belizesailor]

Originally Posted by carstenb

if it floats your boat - yes it counts - but who cares?

Well, thats my attitude, buy hey if I can eventually log a technical circumnav, why not!

I just turned 60 so I better get on it though!

[Joh.Ghurt]

Originally Posted by belizesailor

Interesting, so she never crossed the equator? And thus likely sailed less than 21, 600nm?

She fell short of the 21600nm. I'm unsure about the equator

[hzcruiser]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

15 years? Pfft... we left SFO in 1986 and have only made it as far as Tasmania. Done a lot of circles in the S Pacific, though. The urge to circumnavigate, never really strong, has weakened further... doubt if we will make it now, but that's ok with me. Our motto is if you are having a good time where you are, why leave?

Jim

Best motto ever! All the best to you two from Sydney!

[belizesailor]

Originally Posted by Joh.Ghurt

She fell short of the 21600nm. I'm unsure about the equator

Just read a couple of articles on her solo circumnav. Apparently no record was awarded because, at least in the case of Guiness, they no longer award records for "youngest" so as to not encourage unquified youngsters to try.

In her case, she was a very capable sailor even at that young age, and has stated that setting a record was never her goal anyway.

Per a couple of articles she covered about 27K miles (statute or nautical not specified).

A map of her route crosses the equator.

So seems it was just a technicallity that kept it from being official.

[grahamb]

....the book...'Northwest Passage Solo' by David Cowper gives details of a solo
circumnavigation by that author.....by powerboat....via the Northwest Passage.......also several circumnavigations by sail.....by different routes.......and Dr Google gives details of subsequent circumnavigations subsequent to the book.....at the time of printing of that book he had broken 32 records........