Boat Listings - Encore I, Encore II

Updated 05/05/08

  Previous entries: 1 - Antigua, 2 - Antigua to Los Roques, 3 - Los Roques to Bonaire, 4 - Touring Bonaire

   5 - Bonaire to Panama , 6 - Panama and Panama Canal , 7 - Panama to Ecuador, 8 - Galapagos, 9 - Isabela Island, Galapagos and  Enroute to the Marquesas, 10 - Cruising the Marquesas, 11 - Tuamotus and Tahiti, 12 - Tahiti, Moorea and Raiatea, Society Islands, 13 - Society Islands to Tonga, 14 - Tonga

15 - Fiji and New Caledonia, 16 - Landfall Australia, 17 - Brisbane, 18 - Brisbane to Sydney, 19 - Sydney Part 1, 20 - Sydney Part 2, 21 - Sydney to Brisbane, 22 - New Zealand

Welcome

We are blue water sailors, just home after a recent trip to the Bahamas and then up to the Chesapeake aboard our boat Encore II.  While we haven't posted any specifics or pictures from this past trip,  at this site, you will be able to read about  our longer voyages...where we've visited and what we've seen.  We've posted the logbook from our first world cruise aboard Encore I, which was from 1997 to 2001, and entries from our second Pacific crossing aboard Encore II completed in 2006, cruising Australia in 2007 and finally our visit to New Zealand.  We still cruise aboard Encore I in the Great Lakes.

After completing our Pacific cruising, we decided to ship Encore II back to the USA where it arrived in Ft. Lauderdale after seven weeks aboard Dockwise Transport's "Super Servant 4" yacht carrier ship.  Encore II hadn't been washed since April of 2007 due to the drought in Australia and when it arrived in March 2008, we had a week of just cleaning and repairing things that don't like sitting unused.  We crossed over to familiar cruising grounds in the Abacos of the Bahamas for about a month and instead of simply returning to Florida, at the last moment changed our plans and sailed back up the coast to the Chesapeake.

In spite of cruising in dozens of foreign countries, we've never cruised the East Coast of the USA, so we have positioned Encore II to do this hopefully later this year.  Our trip up the coast got a boost from the Gulf Stream and we arrived in Norfolk in just under 4 days, arriving just after a rare tornado had hit the area.  After another two days motorsailing up the Chesapeake Bay, we've left Encore II at the Hinckley Boatyard in Oxford, MD.  Hinckley is the premier sail and picnic boat manufacturer in the USA and we're looking forward to having them do a number of projects for us before we return.  We've posted listings for both our boats on various websites as eventually we'll only keep one of the two boats.

"Our Family" lets you meet us, while "Our Boat" tells about our two current sailboats.  "Encore I Voyages" are photos aboard our Beneteau First 45f5 from 1991 to now, including the logbook from our first world cruise beginning with the Expo '98 Round the World Rally, while "Encore II Voyages" are photos aboard our Lavranos 56 sailboat, and begins the logbook from our current world cruise to the Pacific in 2006.

"Our Itinerary" listed our our originally expected stops and timetable for our last Pacific crossing, although it was expected to and did change based on weather, opportunities and challenges.  From this page, you can also view portions of our electronic charts showing our route.