Allan and Nancy Salzman Annabelle Nordhavn 40 #22 Nautical miles cruised: No estimate. This summer will be our seventh season aboard Annabelle. Cruising grounds: Cape Cod, Long Island. Cruising plans: Maine. Why Nordhavn: Quiet, comfortable, easy to maintain. Why cruising: Family being together; separation from the “real world.” We are primarily weekend, summer cruisers, but we LOVE the boat. She is still chugging away effortlessly. By the way, we are considered Nordhavn’s only “mail order” customer. That’s right, we bought the boat sight unseen, paid the money and had it delivered, and I still have never met Larry Gieselman, our PAE sales representative.
David and Janet McConaghy Cowabunga Nordhavn 40 #25 Nautical miles cruised: 1,200 in one year. Cruising grounds: Cruised to Desolation
Sound, British Columbia. Favorite destination: Roscoe Bay, British Columbia (good swimming hole). Cruising plans: Inside Passage, Puget Sound to Southeast Alaska. Why Nordhavn: It’s the flashbacks! My Nordhavn 40 feels like a little ship and she is continually reminding me of “back in the day” when I sailed as the Captain of several of NOAA’s research vessels. Why cruising: Being anchored up in a peaceful cove. It’s a feeling of independence and self-reliance.
Kurt and Terrie Schroeder Mach Zero Nordhavn 40 #29 Nautical miles cruised: Over 5,000. Cruising grounds: Mainland Mexico,
Baja Mexico, Southern California, West Coast, San Juan Islands, Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island, Puget Sound, British Columbia, Alaska. Favorite destination: The entire Northwest, from Puget Sound to Alaska. Cruising plans: Spend the entire season in the islands of British Columbia. Why Nordhavn: Quality, reliability, and ability to take us anywhere. We transited www.nordhavn.com
Don Douglass and Reanne Hemingway-Douglass relax aboard Baidarka, their Nordhavn 40.
non-stop in the open ocean from Puerto Vallarta to Southern California and then from Southern California to Sequim, Washington without a care in the world. During our recent summer-long trip to Alaska, the boat never skipped a beat. Typical of a Nordhavn’s capability was the day-long transit of Johnstone Straits under gale warning conditions. The boat handled so well that the biggest concern became, “How come there aren’t any other boats out here?” Why cruising: New associations with quality people, wonderful places to visit. Our trip to Alaska provided experiences we will never forget. Of the various ways to see Alaska, doing it in one’s own Nordhavn is clearly the best. Associations developed with fellow cruisers in every cruising area we’ve experienced have served to produce lifelong friendships.
Rick and Sally Krugger Cocamo Nordhavn 40 #32 Nautical miles cruised: Cocamo was built in 2001 and delivered in 2002. We
purchased our trawler in January 2006 in Iuka, Mississippi and kept it there until June for some work to be done, then arrived to bring her home. The trip took us 25 days traveling 10-14 hours every day to bring her 2,500 miles. Plus we probably cruised another 250 miles over the summer. The boat resides in Rhode Island, but we live in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Cruising grounds: Our destinations included Martha’s Vineyard, Boston, and Plymouth. We traveled 400 miles on the Tenn-Tom River, to Mobile Bay where we picked up the Intracoastal to St. Andrews, Florida. At St. Andrews we headed across the Gulf of Mexico, cutting in at Charlotte Harbor on the west coast of Florida and across Lake Okeechobee. Once we reached the east coast of Florida we traveled north up the Intracoastal in some states and out in the Atlantic whenever possible as we found the Intracoastal had very little water. Cruising plans: This year we hope to cruise the New England waters and continued on page 172
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