Voyages
Here is an overview of Pete's sailing and boat building years. All of the voyaging articles and charts, plus the full list, follow below.
If of further interest, please navigate via the menu or the blog categories — by voyage, by boat, or by chronology.
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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.
| 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 |
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.