We sailed around the world in stages aboard Halekai, leaving Annapolis, Maryland in 2004. After several seasons in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, Halekai was shipped from Thailand to Turkey to avoid the pirates in June 2011. [...]We then spent two seasons cruising in the Med and Morocco before sailing to the Canary Islands and Cape Verde. We crossed the Atlantic to Martinique in January 2014, then sailed through the Windward Islands to the Bahamas and across the Gulf Stream to Fort Lauderdale. Our 10-year circumnavigation was complete upon reaching the Chesapeake in May 2014. Six months later we brought Halekai to her new berth in Port St Lucie, Florida, a very convenient place for sailing across to the Bahamas.

We left Germany aboard our first boat, Phantasus, a LeComte NorthEast 38, and crossed the Atlantic in 1975. Six years later we spent a year sailing her from the US East Coast to the South Pacific. After acquiring Halekai, our Alden 50, in 1993, we cruised extensiviely up and down the US East [...]

Coast, in the Bahamas and the Eastern and Western Caribbean, before setting off on our circumnavigation in 2004. You can receive our latest Sailblog posts by email. Click on the Subscribe link on the bottom right side of the home page. We are happy to be contacted and answer questions.