HR Monsun 31, small ship on a big voyage. After an Atlantic Circle in the year 2000 which the skipper did single hand, he decided to head for a circumnavigation some years later. He departed from his home country Nederland in 2006 together with his wife, passed the Canaries in the autumn and headed to the Cape Verdies and West for the Caribbean the same winter.
After spending the summer 2007 in Caribbean Waters they proceeded for Panama by end of the year.
Spending some time in the Galapagos the started West in 2008 heading for the Marquesas and French Polynesia, stayed some time in Samoa Vanuatu and proceeded for Australia.
It took quite some time to pass the Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland before switching over to to Indonesian and Malaysian waters, heading for Singapore.
Continuing to Thailand, Indean and the Maledives they found themselves in dangerous waters the Golf of Aden and the Red Sea later. After passing the Suez Canal they spent the entire summer 2010 in the Med.
The Windpilot Pacific has been fitted in 2000 and has served well during the entire trip.
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