Circumnavigators of the world on Trawlers & Trawlering

Tribute to Larry Briggs

Kanaloa completes second navigation

Trimaran Earthrace

Hydrogen power around the world

Solar power around the world

PAE takes a Nordhavn 40 around the world

Cable & Wireless Adventurer

Half-Safe for sure but a circumnavigator nevertheless

David Scott Cowper and Polar Bound

Idlewild's extraordinary circumnavigation

Kanaloa completes first circumnavigation

Beebe's famed Passagemaker for sale

Circumnavigator editors at work and play

Passagemaking Under Power^(TM)

Bruce and Joan Kessler and Zopilote

Voyage of Egret

Honor roll of the 20 yachts that have voyaged around the world under power, as compiled by Circumnavigator magazine

Name	Country	Name of vessel	Make or type	LOA	Dates	Notes
Albert Gowen	U.S	Speejacks	Custom	98'	1921-22	First yacht without sails to circumnavigate East to West.
Don & Ann Gumpertz	U.S.	Westward	Custom	86'	1970-76	First yacht without sails to circumnavigate West to East.
Larry Briggs	U.S.	Champion	Custom Lapworth	52'	1977-80	First trawler yacht to circumnavigate, East to West.
Larry Briggs	U.S.	Neptune’s Chariot	Knight & Carver	75’	1981-84	Second circumnavigation, East to West.
Eilco Kasemier	Holland	Bylgia II	Custom	39' 1/2"	1983-84	First Dutch trawler yacht to circumnavigate, and still the smallest, East to West, in only 198 days.
David Scott Cowper	England	Mabel E. Holland	Converted lifeboat	42'	1984-85	First singlehanded circumnavigation under power, East to West.
David Scott Cowper	England	Mabel E. Holland	Converted lifeboat	42'	1986-90	Singlehanded circumnavigation via the Northwest Passage, East to West.
Bruce & Joan Kessler	U.S.	Zopilote	Delta 70	70'	1990-93	East to West circumnavigation by a tireless advocate of passagemaking under power.
Jim & Susy Sink	U.S.	Salvation II	Nordhavn 46	45' 9”	1990-95	First production trawler yacht to circumnavigate, West to East
Ghanim Al-Othman	Kuwait	Othmani	Nordhavn 46	45" 9"	1998-99	First Arab trawler yacht to circumnavigate, West to East.
Heidi & Wolfgang Hass	Germany	Kanaloa	Nordhavn 46	45' 9"	1996-02	First German trawler yacht to circumnavigate, East to West.
Jim Leishman et al	U.S.	Nordhavn	Nordhavn 40	39' 9"	2001-02	Smallest production trawler yacht to circumnavigation, East to West.
Larry Briggs	U.S.	Chartwell	Cheoy Lee	55’	1998-03	Third circumnavigation, East to West. He was preparing for his fourth circumnavigation, also with Chartwell, when he died in his sleep aboard Chartwell on September, 25, 2013.
Don & Alicia Hallerberg	U.S.	Alicia Dawn	Hatteras	77’	2000-03	Out of Fort Lauderdale, East to West. They have started a second circumnavigation, also westabout.
David Scott Cowper	England	Polar Bound	Custom	48'	2003-04	Third circumnavigation under power, second via the Northwest Passage, all singlehanded, all East to West.
Ben Gray & sons	Canada	Idlewild	Custom Buehler	57’	2005-06	Via the Northwest Passage, after starting far inland and portaging to the sea, in a quick 329 days, West to East.
Heidi & Wolfgang Hass	Germany	Kanaloa	Nordhavn 46	45' 9"	2003-08	Third circumnavigation in all, second under power in Nordhavn 46, East to West. First production powerboat to circumnavigate twice.
Eric & Christi Grab	U.S.	Kosmos	Nordhavn 43	43'	2007-09	A fairly quick circumnavigation, East to West, by the youngest crew to date: thirty-somethings
Scott & Mary Flanders	U.S.	Egret	Nordhavn 46	45' 9"	2006-11	A desire to see as much of the globe as possible eventually leads to a circumnavigation—via the five major capes of the Southern Ocean.
Heidi & Wolfgang Hass	Germany	Kanaloa	Nordhavn 46	45' 9"	2009-14	Fourth circumnavigation in all, third under power aboard Kanaloa. East to West. Nordhavn 46 is only production powerboat to circumnavigate three times.

Other noteworthy circumnavigations under power:

Ben Carlin in Half-Safe, an amphibious Jeep
Bryan Peterson of the U.S. in Sunrider, a modified Zodiac 24
Alan Priddy in Spirit of Cardiff, a 33-foot hard-bottom inflatable
Earthrace, a 78-foot wave-piercing trimaran running biodiesel, which set a speed record of 60 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes

Most miles voyaged without actually completing as circumnavigation:

Michael Poliza in Starship, a Northern Marine 75, who covered 75,000 nautical milers in 1,009 days at sea during a voyage from Anacortes, Washington, to Hamburg in his native Germany
Honorable mention for Marty and Marge Wilson of the Nordhavn 62 Karma, who circumnavigated under sail, but after 57,000 nautical miles aboard Karma said they felt fulfilled without going all the way around again

Most honorable mention:

Robert Beebe whose 50,000 sea miles in the original Passagemaker launched the trawler yacht era

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