Sailing East To West

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The Yacht Kim Chow left British Columbia in Sept to circumnavigate East >>> West via southern New Zealand then on to south of Australia, Africa and South America and back home to Canada.



Kim Chow's LWL is 28ft.

The Website's URL for those would like to follow her progress is :-

www. kimchowaroundtheworld.com

Her position via a ham today on the netgiven as 40 - 52' South x 138 - 38 East - lumpy seas

N E winds.

Richard

[maxiswede]

I just wonder why anyone choose to go the 'wrong' way around... a good beating, huh?

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Originally Posted by maxiswede

I just wonder why anyone choose to go the 'wrong' way around... a good beating, huh?

His Website provides a reason to do it - Why do mountaineers choose to climb Everest from the wrong side ?

He covered 130nm in the last 24 hours (0100 hrs UTC 20 Dec) on a broad reach - may be different when he gets to the Great Australian Bite !