Windancer IV
Windancer IV is a Lagoon 440 cruising catamaran. She is Hull# 001 and was purchased by the MacKenzie family in November, 2005 who took possession in Fort Lauderdale, Florida shortly after Hurricane Wilma. John MacKenzie, delivered the vessel to the B
19 July 2009 | Bahamas
18 June 2009 | Staniel Cay, Exumas
10 June 2009 | Stuat's Cove, New Providence, Bahamas
05 June 2009 | Allan Cay, Bahamas
04 June 2009 | Passage between Provo, T & C and Rum Cay, Bahamas
02 June 2009 | Turks and Caicos
26 May 2009 | USVI and BVI
25 May 2009 | BVI and USVI
23 May 2009 | Cooper Island, BVI
16 May 2009 | Passage from St Thomas to Nanny Cay
14 May 2009 | Charlotte's Amalie, St. Thomas
07 May 2009 | Sir Francis Drake Passage off Nanny Cay Marina
04 May 2009 | Barbuda
02 May 2009 | Dominica
30 April 2009 | Guadeloupe
26 April 2009 | St Maarten, WI
20 April 2009 | Carlisle Bay, Antigua, WI
19 April 2009 | Portsmouth, Dominica
18 April 2009 | Falmouth Harbour, Antigua, WI
17 April 2009 | Passage from Jolly Harbour to Carlisle Bay, Antigua
The BIGGEST Day
23 November 2008 | Las Palmas Gran Canaria
Windancer IV Crew
Today, November 23rd, 2008 the crew of Windancer IV will cross the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers start line in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria with 218 other sailboats destined for St Lucia.
After weeks of preparation and reparation, we are ready to do what none of us on Windancer have ever done before - sail over 2800 miles across the Atlantic. Windancer's crew consists of our Captain, John MacKenzie, Ziggy MacKenzie, Bruce Walker, Marlene Elman, Maris Lyons, Connor MacKenzie, Jennifer MacKenzie and Ariel Elman Walker and Ed, the rubber iguana, who has crossed the Atlantic over twenty times and who joins us after the kids of Windancer won his company based on a limerick they wrote. (Check out the World Cruising webside www.worldcruising.com).
We depart today filled with excitement, nervous energy, a little fear, joy, pride and a shared commitment to making this an experience of our collective lifetimes.
We thank you all for your support, well wishes and prayers. There is one more thing you can give us. It gets lonely at sea under our own personal snowglobe with nothing but sky above and water as far as the eye can see.
Once a day, we upload and send emails via satellite. It is a HUGE treat for each of the crew to receive emails, and we ask you to email any of the crew at
cjohnmackenzie@gmn-usa.com
This is the only email that will reach us. Your email can be text base only and please no attachments or pictures.
To thank you, we have pre-loaded blogs that will pop up every day or so. We will not be able to access the blog at sea, but will cherish any comments when we safely arrive on the other side.
You can also track our progress and read blogs from ARC participants at www.worldcruising.com. Select ARC and click fleet viewer to see where we are. We are boat # 155, Windancer IV.
As we type this departure blog, a marching band parades along the pontoon, the crew is washing the deck, and we are saying our final goodbyes to the many friends we have met along the way.
Fair winds and following seas. The Crew of Windancer IV.
After weeks of preparation and reparation, we are ready to do what none of us on Windancer have ever done before - sail over 2800 miles across the Atlantic. Windancer's crew consists of our Captain, John MacKenzie, Ziggy MacKenzie, Bruce Walker, Marlene Elman, Maris Lyons, Connor MacKenzie, Jennifer MacKenzie and Ariel Elman Walker and Ed, the rubber iguana, who has crossed the Atlantic over twenty times and who joins us after the kids of Windancer won his company based on a limerick they wrote. (Check out the World Cruising webside www.worldcruising.com).
We depart today filled with excitement, nervous energy, a little fear, joy, pride and a shared commitment to making this an experience of our collective lifetimes.
We thank you all for your support, well wishes and prayers. There is one more thing you can give us. It gets lonely at sea under our own personal snowglobe with nothing but sky above and water as far as the eye can see.
Once a day, we upload and send emails via satellite. It is a HUGE treat for each of the crew to receive emails, and we ask you to email any of the crew at
cjohnmackenzie@gmn-usa.com
This is the only email that will reach us. Your email can be text base only and please no attachments or pictures.
To thank you, we have pre-loaded blogs that will pop up every day or so. We will not be able to access the blog at sea, but will cherish any comments when we safely arrive on the other side.
You can also track our progress and read blogs from ARC participants at www.worldcruising.com. Select ARC and click fleet viewer to see where we are. We are boat # 155, Windancer IV.
As we type this departure blog, a marching band parades along the pontoon, the crew is washing the deck, and we are saying our final goodbyes to the many friends we have met along the way.
Fair winds and following seas. The Crew of Windancer IV.
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| Vessel Name: | Windancer IV |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Lagoon 440 |
| Hailing Port: | Edmonton, Canada |
| Crew: | John MacKenzie |
| About: | John, Ziggy, Connor and Jennifer MacKenzie |
| Extra: | Setting Sail May, 2008 for our "extended cruise".... |
| Home Page: | www.sailblogs.com/member/windancer |
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S/V Windancer IV
Who: John MacKenzie
Port: Edmonton, Canada
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