Crossing the Panama Canal
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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AvailableLeg 4: from Mauritius around the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Town
Nov 2026 — Dec 2026 · Port Louis, Mauritius → Cape Town, South Africa
Fifty days and twenty-four hundred miles of open Indian Ocean from Mauritius to the tip of Africa, with possible calls along the South African coast, the Agulhas current, the Cape of Good Hope, and a quiet finish in Cape Town before Christmas.
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AvailableLeg 5: across the South Atlantic from Saldanha to Fortaleza
Jan 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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AvailableLeg 6: from Fortaleza to Trinidad along South America
Mar 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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AvailableLeg 7: through the Windward Islands from Trinidad to Antigua
Apr 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.
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AvailableLeg 8: across the North Atlantic from Antigua to the Azores
May 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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AvailableLeg 9: homecoming from the Azores to Kiel
Jul 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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