One More Sleep
August 8, 2020
Start/Finish - Victoria BC
Departure scheduled for Sunday, Oct 6th 2019.
Cape Horn
Rounding the first and most famous of the 5 great capes expected sometime around the beginning of December 2019.
Cape Agulhas
Rounding of the second great cape expected sometime at the end of December 2019.
Cape Leeuwin
The third of the five great capes is expected to be astern sometime near the end of January 2020.
South East Cape
The penultimate cape should be cleared sometime around the first week of February 2020.
South Cape
The fifth and final rounding of the world's 5 great capes is expected mid-February 2020.
Seaburban
Built in 1987 at Hamilton Ontario by Hank Hinkley and a Canadian Partner, Seaburban is an OCY 45. Based on the Reliance 44 hull, she’s a go-anywhere Cruising Club of America design by Pierre Meunier that has proven herself over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. Sister-ships have sailed over every ocean on the globe.
The Skipper
Soldier, citizen-scientist, serial entrepeneur and adventurer, Seaburban’s skipper is a one-man force. Not likely to take no for an answer and quick to quip, Bert is happiest aboard and abroad.
Bert terHart
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The Challenge
Simply stated, the goal is to sail non-stop, single-handed around the world via the 5 great capes using only a sextant, pen-and-paper, and log tables for navigation. Prior to 2020 only 7 people have accomplished this feat. The first is Sir Robin Knox Johnston in 1969 after completing the first Golden Globe Race. Second is Bernard Moitessiere who also competed in the 1968 Golden Globe Race. Third is Chay Blythe in 1971. Lastly, the 4 finishers of the 2018 Golden Globe Race Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, Mark Slats, Uku Randmaa, and Istvan Kopar.
Although there have been many exceptional solo-circumnavigations by North American sailors, before 2020 no North American has completed a solo-circumnavigation of this sort. I am the first.
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