Nordhavn Atlantic Passage 2017 - Introduction

Beginning in mid-May 2017 six Nordhavns will make the trek to Bermuda, starting out from Palm Beach, Florida and Nassau, Bahamas. From there, two will transit to Nova Scotia, and four yachts will continue across the Atlantic Ocean, to the Azores and thence to Gibraltar. We're calling this the "Nordhavn Atlantic Passage 2017", aka NAP 2017.

The total journey for the Atlantic crossers will traverse approximately 3,900 nautical miles of open ocean, and will take us about a month to complete. Our schedule is noted further below.

Bernie Francis (see link here) is our organizer aboard the Nordhavn 55, Angela J. Ideally, assuming no weather delays, the trans-Atlantic portion will take approximately 30 days to reach Gibraltar, ending on or about 16-June.

The two vessels partaking in the flotilla and continuing to Nova Scotia are:

• Roam, N47-08, captained by Clark Haley
• Tivoli, N50-05, captained by Clayton Naeve

The four vessels partaking in the flotilla and continuing to Gibraltar are:

• Aleoli, N52-75, captained by Stefan Hearst 
• Angela, N55-34, captained by Andre de Weldige Cremer 
• Moxie, N55-09, captained by Bob Warshawer 
• Relish, N60-52, captained by Silvio Gentile·          

This is the first time that a fleet of Nordhavn trawlers this large has undertaken such an ambitious ocean crossing since "Med Bound 2007."   Here is the anticipated schedule:

• One boat (Relish) will depart Nassau on 15-May and steam towards Palm Beach.
• On 17-May all other boats will depart Palm Beach and be joined by Relish enroute.
• All boats should arrive in Bermuda on Monday 22-May.
• Roam and Tivoli will spend June in Bermuda taking in the America's Cup racing events, then afterwards cruise north to explore Nova Scotia & Newfoundland.
• The other four boats will depart Bermuda Friday 26-May for the 11 day passage to Horta, Azores, with an ETA of Tuesday 6-June.
• Depart Horta on Saturday 10-June for a 6 day passage to Gibraltar.
• Arrive Gibraltar on Friday 16-June.

     Currently all boats are in preparation mode...that involves servicing and verifying all systems, as well as provisioning spare parts, tools, lubricants, food and related galley supplies. As we get closer to departure date we'll be posting more updates here, including a link to a tracking site for monitoring the fleet's progress across the pond.  Stay tuned.