A Round The World Expedition
•Lymington - Canaries 1,400 miles, July-November 2009
•Canaries - Antigua 2,700 miles, November-December 2009
•Antigua - Australia 9,000 miles, January-July 2010
•Australia - Cape Town 8,300 miles August-November 2010
•Cape Town - Brazil 3,600 miles January-February 2011
AIMS OF THE EXPEDITION
Our plan is to start journey in July 2009, slowly cruise along French, Spanish and Portuguese coast to Canaries. The next leg will be the Atlantic crossing arriving Antigua for Christmas. The second leg will lead us through the Panama Canal into the Pacific and onto Australia. After exploring The Great Barreer Reef, we will cross the Indian Ocean arriving in Cape Town. The final leg will lead us back across the Atlantic finishing in Brazil February 2011.
The above itinerary is flexible and depends most of all on the weather conditions.The sailing will be done in a safe and enjoyable way, visiting as many countries as possible, meeting people, experiencing the local atmosphere and customs.
ABOUT US
We are both experienced ocean sailors, sailing together for 2,5 years covering over 18,000 miles . Simon has been sailing for over 20 years as an instructor and principal of Safesailing school. In 2006 we have left the UK and sailed across Atlantic to Caribbean, taking a crew of novices onboard. After spending a season crusing the islands, Black Arrow headed back to England.
Right now we are preparing for a round the world expedition, refurbishing Black Arrow, purchasing all necessary equipment and carrying out research about places we will visit.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Our yacht Black Arrow is run in a friendly manner with all roles onboard explained. Crew will be involved in all aspects of the operation, navigation, sailing, cooking and cleaning onboard. We do not want to race, we would like to cruise stopping wherever we like without rushing things too much.
Simon is an experienced instructor and is keen to teach all of the crew as much as possible.
HOW TO BECOME A CREW MEMBER
We would welcome people from all backgrounds and levels of experience to apply for the trip. Due to close environment of ocean sailing, we will need to spend time on Black Arrow with all potential crew members, so that everybody understands fully living on board. We would suggest potential crew members, to come and sail with us for 2 weeks during this summer. We will visit the Channel Islands and do a few night passages so that you can have a taste of sailing on Black Arrow. This is going to be a training course. The cost will be £595 per week, if you will later join us for around the world trip, we will deduct this training fee from the price of the trip.
COST OF THE TRIP
On the first leg, cruising from Lymington to The Canaries, the cost will be £50 per day as we plan to stop at many places whilst cruising down the coast of Spain and Portugal.
On the other legs the cost will be £1 per mile sailed with a 30% discount for subsiquent legs sailed.
For all enquires, please contact Simon Smith on 07710 127771
