North Pacific Circumnavigation Hawaii Majuro Guam Japan Alaska

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5 жыл бұрын

A North Pacific Circumnavigation started from British Columbia on a 10.7m sailboat in September, 2017.
SV Amigo visited San Francisco, Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the Northern Marianas Islands.
The homebound legs included ports in the Inland Sea and in the Sea of Japan.
The Bering Sea was then crossed from Kushiro to reach Attu, Alaska. Canada was entered at Prince Rupert, and Amigo’s home at Eagle Harbour Yacht Club in West Vancouver was reached in September, 2018.
Various incidents occurred: A 3-day near gale was encountered on the US West Coast required dodger and sail repair in San Francisco.
Amigo and crew were detained for five days at Kanazawa on suspicion of terrorism by the Japanese Coast Guard; on one of the days interrogation started at 0630 and finished at 2330.
Amigo ran aground three times while attempting to transit Dry Passage in Alaska. Amigo returned to Petersburg to spend a second night. We then learned, “No one goes that way!”.

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@GillesPillonel Жыл бұрын

Excellent, thanks for sharing. Nice editing too! Fair winds.

@highontaiwan 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool adventure. I'd like to do something like that someday. I lived in Taiwan for ten years and my wife is from there so we'd stop there. Plus, we live in Florida so we'd do the Caribbean first, cross the Panama Canal, sail across the pacific to Fiji, work our way up to Guam, then to Taiwan, and on to Japan. At least that's what I'd like to do. My wife doesn't like the idea.

@dag1489 5 жыл бұрын

Way to go Rob!

@RG-wq2fm 3 жыл бұрын

Hello, Did the Japanese Coast Guard think that you were drift net fishing or something like that?

@carfairautosharingincorpor8005 3 жыл бұрын

The word "terrorism" came up. Probably they lumped us in with Canadian anti-whaling eco-terrrorists like Paul Watson who is a co-founder of Greenpeace. But I as a Canadian aboriginal myself, I understand where the expectation of continued historical hunting and fishing comes from.