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5 Jun 2025
By Ariunsanaa Ganbaatar 1 – Clove hitch on the Marlin spike It was 9 days since we left anchorage, it was also 9 days we continued with the 6-hour shifts. I was on the 12-6 watch. It was tough on all of us, we were so tired, at times it…
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24 May 2025
Two months ago, we opened the shipping container like a giant birthday gift. Inside it we found the wood from the trees our boatbuilder had cut down in Denmark, all the rigging from last summer’s project in Marstal, canvas for our new sa…
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11 Mar 2025
The yard period has demanded a huge effort from both the Neptun team and from the shipyard. Fortunately, work is progressing steadily, and the last two months have given new life onboard. When in the middle of the chaos and mess of a shi…
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16 Jan 2025
After months of research looking for shipyards in Central America, we found our way to Astilleros Marecsa in Mazatlán Mexico. Neptun arrived on New Year’s Day and celebrated new year’s together in Mazatlán before the previous voyage ende…
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6 Jan 2025
After clearing out of El Salvador, the crew enjoyed a swim call off the coast of Guatemala before making its first stop in Chiapas, just across the Mexico-Guatemala border. In Chiapas, the crew made a trip inland to San Cristobal where t…
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29 Sept 2024
NEPTUN transits the Panama Canal, old SULZER engine, riveted lock gates, jungle lake at anchor, on the way from the Pacific into Caribbean waters.
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Sold outMay 2026 — Aug 2026 · Bali, Indonesia → Réunion, France
The opening chapter of Neptun's 482-day world voyage, a 4,078-nm trade-wind passage from the temples of Bali to the volcanic cliffs of Réunion.
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AvailableNov 2026 — Dec 2026 · Réunion, France → Cape Town, South Africa
Fifty days and twenty-three hundred miles of open Indian Ocean from volcanic Réunion to the tip of Africa, the Agulhas current, the Cape of Good Hope, and a quiet finish in Cape Town before Christmas.
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AvailableJan 2027 — Mar 2027 · Saldanha Bay, South Africa → Fortaleza, Brazil
Forty-four days before the southeast trades, Napoleon's exile at St. Helena, the equator crossing, and landfall in tropical Brazil. The ocean chapter of the voyage.
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AvailableMar 2027 — Apr 2027 · Fortaleza, Brazil → Trinidad
A thousand miles of downwind trade running, the Amazon's brown water under the hull, the Guianas smudged on the horizon, and Trinidad's steelpan waiting at the end.
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AvailableApr 2027 — May 2027 · Trinidad → Antigua
Four weeks of short trade-wind daysails through the Lesser Antilles, turquoise anchorages, rum shops on the sand, French-Creole Martinique and the tall-ship scene in Antigua.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 7: through the Windward Islands from Trinidad to Antigua
AvailableMay 2027 — Jul 2027 · Antigua → Ponta Delgada, Azores
Fifty-six days on the classic spring tall-ship route home, Antigua, a long reach to Bermuda's pink sand, then three weeks of open ocean to the volcanic Azores.
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AvailableJul 2027 — Aug 2027 · Ponta Delgada, Azores → Kiel, Germany
The final 1,878 nm, from volcanic São Miguel to the Baltic, up the English Channel through the Dover TSS, past Helgoland's red cliffs and home to Kiel.
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