TRANS-ATLANTIC PASSAGE GUIDE
A Circumnavigator Primer
Across the
Atlantic in your own
trawler yacht
Milt Baker has crossed the Atlantic on a motor yacht only once, but as one of the key planners for the Nordhavn Atlantic Rally 2004 (NAR), author of the NAR operations manual, and head of the NAR advance team, Milt has learned a thing or two about crossing the Atlantic in small motor yachts. As he prepared this special editorial feature, he and his wife Judy were well into organizing another rally, Med Bound 2007, set to leave Fort Lauderdale in May 2007 for Gibraltar. After crossing, they hope to cruise in the Mediterranean aboard Bluewater, their Nordhavn 47, for several years. Med Bound 2007 Start: Nine Nordhavns taste the salt off Fort Lauderdale as they begin a 1,035-mile passage to Bermuda. Left to right: New Frontier, Summer Skis, Salty Dawg, Bluewater, Beso, Moana Kuewa, Imagine, Grey Pearl, and Downtime. At right, a closer view of (left to right) New Frontier, Beso and Bluewater as they head into open ocean. 84
circumnavigator | 2008-2009
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