Voyages
Here is an overview of Pete's sailing and boat building years.
If of further interest, please navigate via the blog categories for more posts either by choosing a voyage, boat or chronology. We added some of the main articles on this page too.
| Years | Voyages – Destinations (& Boat Building) | Boats |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Launceston – Bass Strait – Flinders Is – Hobart – Nelson (NZ) – New Plymouth – North Cape – Bay of Islands – Noumea – Bay of Islands | China Moon |
| 2024 | Florida – Cornwall UK – Wales – Northern Ireland – Scotland – Cornwall | Kokachin |
| 2023 | Tobago – Grenada – Martinique – Guadeloupe – Bermuda – Nova Scotia – Newfoundland – Nova Scotia – Florida | Kokachin |
| 2022 | England – France – Spain – Portugal – Canary Is – Cape Verde – Tobago | Kokachin |
| 2019 – 2022 | Building Kokachin / Cornwall – UK | Kokachin |
| 2018 | Florida – England | Blossom |
| 2017 | New Zealand – Austral Islands – Mangareva – Society Islands – Tonga – New Zealand | Oryx |
| 2016 | Australia – New Caledonia – New Zealand | Oryx |
| 2015 | Cape Town – Durban – Mauritius – Australia | Oryx |
| 2014 | Uruguay – Argentina – Brazil – South Africa | Oryx |
| 2013 | Cape Verdi Islands – Brazil – Uruguay | Oryx |
| 2012 | UK – France – Spain – Portugal – Canaries – Cape Verde Islands | Oryx |
| 2010 – 2012 | Building Oryx / Cornwall – UK | Oryx |
| 2010 | Brazil – French Guyana – Tobago – USVI – Azores – UK | Pelican |
| 2009 | Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina – Paraguay – Brazil | Pelican |
| 2008 | Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina – South Africa – St Helena – Ascension Island – Brazil | Pelican |
| 2007 | Bermuda – USA – Brazil | Pelican |
| 2006 | USA – Bermuda | Moonshine |
| 2006 | Plymouth – Newport RI – New York – Delaware Bay – Baltimore – Chesapeake Bay | Shanti |
| 2006 | João Pessoa – south of Cape Town – Southern Ocean – Bass Strait – Launceston | China Moon |
| 2005 | Tristan da Cunha – Cape Town – St Helena – Salvador – João Pessoa – Trinidad – Grenada – Nevis – BVI – Bermuda – Chesapeake Bay – João Pessoa | China Moon |
| 2004 | Argentina – Ushuaia – Chile – South Shetlands – South Georgia – Tristan da Cunha | China Moon |
| 2003 | Argentina – Chile – Argentina – Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina | China Moon |
| 2002 | South Africa – St Helena – Ascension Islands – Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina | China Moon |
| 1999 – 2002 | Building China Moon / South Africa | China Moon |
| 1998 | Algarve – Azores – Brazil – Cape Town | Badger |
| 1997 | Caribbean – Nova Scotia – Labrador – Baffin Island – Azores – Algarve | Badger |
| 1996 | Cape Town – St Helena – Ascension Islands – Azores – UK – Canaries – Caribbean | Badger |
| 1995 | South Orkneys – South Georgia – Gough Island – Cape Town | Badger |
| 1994 | Falklands – South Orkneys | Badger |
| 1993 | Brazil – Uruguay – Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina – Falklands | Badger |
| 1992 | USA – ICW – BVI – Azores – UK – Algarve – Canaries – Brazil | Badger |
| 1990 – 1991 | Cornwall – Algarve – Morocco – Majorca – Madeira – Azores – Greenland West Coast – Newfoundland – Nova Scotia – USA | Badger |
| 1989 – 1990 | Cornwall – Algarve – Canaries – Cuba – Bahamas – Bermuda – Scotland – Norway – Sweden – Denmark – UK | Badger |
| 1988 | Cornwall – Brittany – Cornwall | Missee Lee |
| 1987 – 1989 | Working in Falmouth | Badger / Missee Lee |
| 1986 – 1987 | Scotland – Portugal – Canaries – Venezuela – Dominican Republic – Bermuda – Azores – Cornwall | Badger |
| 1983 – 1985 | Scotland – Canaries – BVI – Chesapeake Bay – Florida – BVI – Nova Scotia – Ireland – Iceland – Lofoten Norway – Shetlands – Lancashire | Badger |
| 1980 – 1983 | Building Badger / UK – Lancashire | Badger |
| 1977 – 1979 | Lancaster – Scilly Is – Solent – Scilly Is – Cork – Bantry Bay – Lancaster (via S coast Ireland) | Sheila |
| 1975 – 1976 | UK – Spain – Canary – Barbados – BVI – Azores – UK | Stormalong |
| 1972 – 1974 | Building Stormalong / UK – Lancashire | Stormalong |
| 1972 | Transatlantic: Newport R.I. – Azores – Gibraltar – Nice, France | Aloha VII |
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Routes are auto-generated from the voyages table and blog posts and are approximate — if a line briefly crosses land, please ignore it.
STORMALONG
1975 – 1976
UK – Spain – Canary – Barbados – British Virgin Islands – Azores – UK
1977 – 1979
SHEILA
Lancaster – Scilly Is – Solent – Scilly Is – Cork – Bantry Bay – Lancaster (via S coast Ireland)
Map not available
BADGER
1983 – 1985
Scotland – Canaries – British Virgin Islands – Chesapeake Bay – Florida – British Virgin Islands – Nova Scotia – Ireland – Norway – Shetlands – Lancashire
Badger – Virgin Islands to the UK
1986 – 1987
Scotland – Portugal – Canaries – Venezuela – Dominican Republic – Bermuda – Azores – Cornwall
MISSEE LEE
1988
Cornwall – Brittany – Cornwall
BADGER
1989 – 1990
Cornwall – Algarve – Canaries – Cuba – Bahamas – Bermuda – Scotland – Norway – Sweden – Denmark – UK
1990 – 1991
Cornwall – Algarve – Morocco – Majorca – Madeira – Azores – Greenland West Coast – Newfoundland – Nova Scotia – USA
1992
USA – UK – Algarve – Canaries – Brazil
Map not available
1993
Brazil – Uruguay – Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina – Falklands
1994
Falklands – South Orkneys
1995
South Orkneys – South Georgia – Gough Island – Cape Town
1996
Cape Town – St Helena – Ascension Islands – Azores – UK – Canaries – Caribbean
Map not available
1997
Caribbean – Nova Scotia – Labrador – Baffin Island – Azores – Algarve
1998
Algarve – Azores – Brazil – Cape Town
CHINA MOON
2002
South Africa – St Helena – Ascension Islands – Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina
2003
Argentina – Chile – Argentina – Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina
2004
Argentina – Chile – South Shetlands – South Georgia – Tristan da Cunha
2005
Tristan da Cunha – Cape Town – St Helena – Salvador – João Pessoa – Trinidad – Grenada – Nevis – BVI – Bermuda – Chesapeake Bay – João Pessoa
Map not available
2006
João Pessoa – south of Cape Town – Southern Ocean – Bass Strait – Launceston
Map not available
SHANTI
Plymouth – Newport RI – New York – Delaware Bay – Baltimore – Chesapeake Bay
Map not available
MOONSHINE
USA – Bermuda
Map not available
PELICAN
2007
Bermuda – USA – Brazil
Map not available
2008
Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina – South Africa – St Helena – Ascension Island – Brazil
Map not available
2009
Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina – Paraguay – Brazil
2010
Brazil – French Guyana – Tobago – US Virgin Island – Azores – UK
Map not available
ORYX
2012
UK – France – Spain – Portugal – Canary Islands
France – Spain
Spain – Portugal – Canary Islands
2013
Cape Verdi Islands – Brazil – Uruguay – Argentina – Brazil – South Africa
Brazil
Brazil – Uruguay
Uruguay
2014
Uruguay – Argentina – Brazil – South Africa
Argentina
Brazil
Brazil – South Africa
2015
Cape Town – Durban – Mauritius – Australia
2016
Australia – New Caledonia – New Zealand
2017
New Zealand – Austral Islands – Mangareva – Society Islands – Tonga – New Zealand
BLOSSOM
2018
Florida – UK
KOKACHIN
2022
Cornwall – France – Spain – Portugal – Canary Is – Cape Verde – Tobago
2023
Tobago – Grenada – Martinique – Guadeloupe – Bermuda – Nova Scotia – Newfoundland – Nova Scotia – Florida
Nova Scotia – Florida
2024
Florida – Bermuda – Cornwall
Cornwall – Wales – Northern Ireland – Scotland – Cornwall
CHINA MOON
2025
Launceston – Bass Strait – Flinders Is – Hobart – Nelson (NZ) – New Plymouth – North Cape – Bay of Islands
Bay of Islands – Noumea (New Caledonia) – Bay of Islands
No map available. It was a short uneventful passage there and back.