Top 10 Ocean Passages for Mile Building

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Ocean sailing great for mile building

Top 10 Mile Building Voyages

The beauty of sailing through the day and night on a reasonably large sailing ship is you can notch up thousands of miles without too much effort. You also gain a wealth of experience if you fully immerse yourself in sailing, watch keeping and navigating duties. Its easy to take time to learn as much as you can from the professional crew.
 

Ocean Wandering Tall Ships

Barque Europa
Brigantine Soren Larsen
Two masted sailing ship Bessie Ellen
Barque Tenacious
Barque Lord Nelson
Topsail schooner Oosterschelde

Signed on as 'Ships Crew'

These ships are all sail training vessels so you are signed on as ships crew. This means you can log the miles as seatime for various marine qualifications from qualifying miles towards your RYA yachtmaster offshore or sea time for superyacht or merchant navy.
 
You may be able to learn aspects of astro navigation with a sextant and in the Pacific on Soren Larsen you can find out how the Polynesians navigated.
 
Living at an angle becomes quite normal after a while. It's not as frugal as Nelson's day. Watermakers and large freezers save the day.
 

Distance in Nautical Miles

Here are some of our longest voyage legs. To help those interested in mile building we are adding a rough estimate of the nautical miles you might cover in the voyage descriptions (click on the voyage descriptions below).  If you have more time you can spend months on ships like Soren Larsen and Barque Europa following a trade wind circuit like the sailing cargo windjammers of the 19th Century and early 20th Century.

 

Antarctica - South Gerogia - Tristan du Cuhna - Cape Town Europa 52 day Sailing Expedition- The Big Voyage - Antarctic & South Georgia 2012 - Last places
ANT4-2012
Europa Ushuaia Argentina Cape Town, South Africa Fri, 02/03/2012 - 17:00- to
Sun, 22/04/2012 - 09:00
Voyage from Classic Sailing Cross the Caribbean Sea & Ocean Passage accross the Bermuda Triangle - Sail a 100 year old square rigger - 9 days for €2950 euros
EYE12-8
Eye of the Wind Philipsberg, St Maarten St Georges, Bermuda Sun, 04/03/2012 - 18:00- to
Mon, 19/03/2012 - 11:00
Voyage from Classic Sailing Tenacious - Caribbean Sea Adventure via Turks and Caicos Islands 14 days for £1150
TNS337
Tenacious Falmouth Harbour, Antigua Nassau, Bahamas Sat, 10/03/2012 - 16:00- to
Fri, 23/03/2012 - 13:00
Mile Building Ocean Voyages from Classic Sailing 700 mile Blue water ocean passage - Tenerife to the Azores - £899 12 day Ocean Passage
BE209
Bessie Ellen San Miguel Marina, Tenerife Horta, Azores Thu, 15/03/2012 - 16:00- to
Tue, 27/03/2012 - 10:00
Voyage from Classic Sailing Trans Atlantic Crossing with the Westerlies on Square Rigger Eye of The Wind - Bermuda to Azores - 17 days for €2950 euros
EYE12-9
Eye of the Wind St Georges, Bermuda Horta, Azores Wed, 21/03/2012 - 18:00- to
Sun, 08/04/2012 - 11:00
Voyage from Classic Sailing Lord Nelson - 700 mile ocean passage Canaries to the Azores £975 for 12 days
LN809
Lord Nelson Gran Canaria, Canaries Ponta Delgada, Azores Fri, 23/03/2012 - 16:00- to
Tue, 03/04/2012 - 10:00
Ocean Voyages on Bessie Ellen from Classic Sailing Atlantic Ocean Passage - 19 days - £999
BE212
Bessie Ellen Horta, Azores Falmouth, UK Sat, 14/04/2012 - 16:00- to
Wed, 02/05/2012 - 10:00
Voyage from Classic Sailing Tenacious - 3000 mile Trans Atlantic Crossing Bermuda - UK via Azores 31 days £1550
TNS340
Tenacious Bermuda,Hamilton Southampton Mon, 16/04/2012 - 17:00- to
Wed, 16/05/2012 - 13:00
Voyage from Classic Sailing 24 Day Ocean Voyage from Cape Town to Ascension Island via St Helena €1775 / €2495 euros
KA-010512
Europa Cape Town, South Africa Ascension Island, South Atlantic Tue, 01/05/2012 - 17:00- to
Thu, 24/05/2012 - 09:00
Voyage from Classic Sailing 67 Day Ocean Voyage from Cape Town to St Malo €4375 euros
KS-010512
Europa Cape Town, South Africa St Malo, France Tue, 01/05/2012 - 17:00- to
Fri, 06/07/2012 - 09:00
Voyage from Classic Sailing 30 Days Cross the Equator from Ascension Island to the Azores €1975 / €3050 euros
AH-240512
Europa Ascension Island,South Atlantic Horta, Azores Thu, 24/05/2012 - 17:00- to
Fri, 22/06/2012 - 09:00

 

Lifetime Sailing Goals - Are any of these yours ?

Sail downwind in the Southern Ocean amongst the icebergs and albatross to South Georgia in 2012 &2013, following the epic route of Shackleton's desperate rescue bid in open boat 'James Caird'

Cross the roughest stretch of water in the world - Drakes Passage below Cape Horn in 2012-2013

Follow the windjammer route in the Roaring 40's east of New Zealand and accross the blue Pacific 2012

Cross the Atlantic,  tropics and the equator on a ship with stun'sails and skysails 2012

Sail between South Pacific islands and meet the islanders as a fellow seafarer in 2012

Sail a tall ship down the Antarctic Peninsula to about 65 degrees South 2012-2013

Sail a square rigger in the Arctic Circle & spot polar bears 2012

Sail up the Caribbean Island Chain on a square rigger that can take able bodied & disabled crew

  
 
 

 


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