2007 Plans:

Our plans would be to depart from Gibraltar late  ……on to the Netherlands and from there to London.  I have not planned all the detail but we would arrive in London in September/October and will have booked a passage for Goleen to Fort Lauderdale for November

2008 Plans:

We would ready Goleen for cruising through the Caribbean from December 2007, starting perhaps with the Bahamas (just so Sonaia sees the color of the water and those secluded Bahamas anchorages). 

The canal to San Diego is approx. 3300 miles, S Diego to Vancouver another approx.1160. Vancouver to Anchorage ~ 1458.

We will cruise some in the Caribbean before transiting the Canal in about March and then making our way along the West Coast in easy stages when the weather permits.  The interesting places that we stopped at were Los Suenos and Banana Bay in Costa Rica. We also stopped at Las Barillas in El Salvador which is a safe haven and the equivalent of Camp David in that little country.

The difficult places are going to be the three gulfs which enjoy 180 days of storms each year.  Panama, Papagayo and Tuantepec. The wind is exiting the Gulf of Mexico into the Pacific. We had Force 7 in the Gulf of Panama, flat calm in Papagayo and Force 7/8 gusting 50 knots in Tuantepec.  The secret is to hug the shore to minimize the fetch.

Heading further North, we are likely to stop off in Cabo, Dana Point, perhaps Newport Beach, San Francisco, make our way to Port Townsend, Seattle and from there to the San Juan Islands, Vancouver Island (Sydney for sure) and all the way to Alaska.  We would head south to leave the Port Townsend area by mid September.  There are not too many places before San Francisco to stop (we stayed at the St Francis Yacht Club under the Golden Gate Bridge).  Then we would work our way South to Dana Point to prepare for the Pacific in 2009

2009 Plans:

Pacific journey (to get to New Zealand before the Typhoon season?).

2010 Plans:

Continue through the Pacific to Japan. We certainly want to include Japan. And we should visit Vietnam too - we will be very welcomed there.

2011 Plans:

Open, but probably more Pacific and then to Singapore, Sri Lanka, Maldives and onwards towards the Suez Canal and the Med

 
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