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Dana Point, CA – (March 14, 2006) – In line with the Around The World voyage of 2001-02 and the 2004 Atlantic Rally comes another great Nordhavn adventure. This summer, a Nordhavn 46 will depart Gibraltar for a 16-month cruise to New Zealand by way of Cape Horn.





Scott and Mary Flanders, who took part in the Nordhavn Atlantic Rally on their boat, Egret, will embark on their own 20,000 nm course this August. They spent a year-and-a-half researching the project and are eager to get out and experience this journey of a lifetime. “This trip is about taking a modern comfortable power boat from the Mediterranean to New Zealand via Cape Horn, [traveling] in as much comfort as possible and enjoying all that the voyage has to offer. We are going to see places few people ever get to see,” Scott said.

The trip will be covered on www.nordhavn.com with weekly log updates and real time tracking. It will be a fantastic read for boaters and adventure enthusiasts alike. Adds Scott: “I hope to encourage people to head offshore and enjoy some of the things that we – who do go offshore in our boat – get to see and do.” The Flanders are also planning to write articles on everything from how they prepared themselves and their boat for the trip to how “plain folks” like them gained the knowledge to embark on such an ambitious excursion, and they are happy to contribute stories to magazines.

Their target departure date is August 15 and they plan to arrive in New Zealand December 2007. Below is a rough outline of their itinerary:




  • Depart Gibraltar

  • S to Madeira

  • S to the Canary Islands

  • S to Cape Verde

  • SW to Bahia de Salvador (Brazil)

  • S down the coast of Brazil to Ponta del Este (Uruguay)

  • S to Ushuaia (Argentina)

  • S down the coast of Argentina

  • S to the Strait of Magellan at Beagle Channel

  • S to Puerto Williams (Chile)

  • Around Cape Horn

  • N through the Chilean canals

  • N up the coast of Chile to Peru

  • N to southern Ecuador

  • W to the Galapagos Islands

  • SW to the Marquesas Islands

  • S to New Zealand
For more details, please contact:

Jenny Stern, Nordhavn Yachts
One Washington Street
Newport, RI 02840
401-846-6490 or 401-743-1082
jenny.stern@nordhavn.com		Sytsma, John
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