Route
A circumnavigation is the sailing equivalent of climbing Mount Everest. Oceans of Hope (OOH) will sail approximately 61,000 kilometres (33,000 nautical miles).
The yacht sat sail from Copenhagen, Denmark, on 15 June 2014 and will visit approximately 30 ports around the world, the first group of which are in Europe and include Kiel (Germany), Portsmouth (UK), La Rochelle (France) and Lisbon (Portugal). Following the first Atlantic Ocean crossing Oceans of Hope arrived in Boston, Massachusetts (USA).
The onward route takes in the eastern seaboard of the USA - New Port, Atlantic City, New York, Charleston, Fort Lauderdale, Bahamas and the Caribbean - Jamaica before the yacht transits the Panama Canal, one of the world’s greatest feats of engineering. Crossing the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean via the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia and Samoa, Oceans of Hope will sail on to Auckland - New Zealand and next Australia, calling in to Sydney for The World MS Day in the end of May.
From Sydney OOH will sail along the Australian cost with stopovers in Brisbane, Cairns & Darwin. Leaving Australia the yacht continues to Singapore crossing the Timor Sea among other fantastic places. In Singapore OOH will be loaded onto a Maersk container ship and carried to Ambarli in Turkey in order to avoid piracy off Africa’s shores, the Gulf of Aden, as well as the monsoon season in the Arabian Sea.
When returning to European waters, there will be a chance to reacclimatise in the Mediterranean, with stops in Spain - Barcelona for the ECTRIMS 2015 congress and Italy, before the return to much colder climes, through the North Sea and home to Copenhagen in November 2015.