From 2016 to 2020 I sailed single-handed around the world on 'Fathom', a Vancouver 28 pocket cruising boat after leaving my job, career and land life in my wake. My voyage was the adventure of a lifetime and I returned home to the UK 4 years and 3 months later. 37,200 nautical miles had passed under the keel in a solo circumnavigation via the Panama Canal and South Africa. This is my attempt at piecing together a 2-part film about my adventures in the Voyage of Fathom. ​I hope you enjoy watching.
Part 2:
In this 2nd and final episode, I arrive in Cape Town at the end of 2018 before sailing up the South Atlantic to the Caribbean via stops at Saint Helena and Fernando da Noronha. On approach to Grenada in April 2019, I cross my ground track from two years earlier to complete a loop of the world.
After a few months break from the boat, I return to the Caribbean in October 2019 before sailing back across the Atlantic to the UK via a stop in the Azores. On August 8th, 2020, 4 years and 3 months after sailing away, I arrive back to the Solent and am escorted back to Yarmouth Harbour by friends and family.
Here are some of the highlights and most memorable moments including swimming with whale sharks, Caribbean island hopping, Coronavirus lockdown in Antigua, being stuck onboard at anchor for 3 weeks in the Azores whilst the Border remained closed, and of course returning home after so long away.
My boat is called 'Fathom', an 8.5m Vancouver 28 built by Northshore in 1991. Long keeled, cutter rigged and with plenty of storage, she is the perfect pocket ocean cruiser.
Check out the 1st part of my circumnavigation film here: • Single-Handed Sailing ...
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