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Small Ocean Voyages Highlight Seabird and Pandora
The Seabird a 25 foot yawl sails from Boston toward Rome with Day and crew while the 37 foot Pandora built in Australia completes a round the world voyage from Bunbury to New York. The two vessels gain public attention for bold deep water sailing amid storms and near disasters. The Seabird aims 2200 miles to the Azores 900 to Gibraltar and 900 to Rome via Bonifacio. The Pandora endures gales a hurricane and Cape Horn voyage returning to New York before resuming a Mediterranean Suez route with Blythe and Arakais at the helm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seabird
Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Thomas Fleming Day
The
Rudder
North Atlantic Ocean
Rome
Mr. Day
Long Island Sound
Atlantic
Pacific
Bermuda
New York
Marblehead
Day
Boston
Mediterranean
Hudson
Azores
Gib-raltar
Straits of
Bonafacio
New York Harbor
Australia
George Blythe
Coventry
England
Peter Arakais
Bunbury
South Pacific
Cape Horn
Melbourne
Sydney
New Zealand
Auckland
Pitcairn Islands
Easter Island
Falkland Islands
New Islands
Saint Helena
Ascension Island
London
Suez Canal