Pacific Crossing

Pacific Crossing

The open ocean passage starts in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in March and is estimated to take about 16 days.  Sea Dragon will have just undergone a major refit and be ready for the 3070nm passage to Honolulu, Hawaii. Originally built in 2000, for the round the world Global Challenge Race, she is designed to thrive in the Southern Ocean!  She was specifically set up for volunteer crew with limited sailing experience and can safely handle any number of sailing conditions. With a crew capacity of 14 and a cruising speed of 12 knots, she is a comfortable and exciting ocean going yacht.
 
Your experience on board Sea Dragon will go far beyond being just a sailing one.  This passage will mark the first deployment of the onboard CO2 sensor monitoring ocean acidification.  As the oceans absorb increasing amounts of CO2, the very survival of corals, shellfish and many plankton species is severely threatened.
 
This ocean passage is an important part of her 2012 mission in the North Pacific, as the team on board set out to document the debris generated by the Japan tsunami of March 2011.  Rarely is such a monumental amount of material - tens of thousands of tons including cars, entire homes and boats - simultaneously thrust into the sea from a single location.

This voyage will also be the 5th leg of British Adventurer Dave Cornthwaite's Expedition1000 Project which involves 25 separate journeys of 1000 miles of more each using a different form of non-motorised transport.  Find out more at www.davecornthwaite.co.uk.