{"id":51,"date":"2011-02-27T17:45:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freydis.de\/wordpress_en\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2011-03-07T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:16:51","slug":"the-journeys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.freydis.de\/wordpress_en\/the-journeys\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Journeys Round the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chronology of our Journeys 1981 \u2013 1989: First to Fourth Journey<\/h3>\n

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  1. Journey 1981\/82: Round South America and first exploration to the Antarctic Peninsula,\u00a0Duration 11 months, Distance ca. 23,000 nm, Heide writes about the journey in “Weit im Norden liegt Kap Hoorn<\/em>“.<\/li>\n
  2. Journey 1986: Round North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. Newfoundland – SW Greenland – Iceland – East Greenland – Scoresbysound – Jan Mayen – Spitsbergen, Duration 7 months, Distance 10,000 nm. Described in “Wo Berge segeln<\/em>“.<\/li>\n
  3. Journey 1987\/88: Round North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. Round Spitsbergen – Caribbean – Newfoundland – West Greenland – Iceland, Duration 16 months, Distance 26,000 nm. Described in “Wo Berge segeln”.<\/li>\n
  4. Journey 1988\/89: Round Africa. Mediterranean Sea – Red Sea – Mozambique Channel – Cape of Good Hope – Namibia – Brasil – Caribbean, Duration 12 months, Distance 25,000 nm<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Chronology of our Journeys 1990 \u2013 2010: Fifth and Sixth Journey<\/h3>\n

    E<\/big>nd of our domestic middle-class occupations.<\/p>\n

    When the time comes when you could, it is over when you can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach\u2019s words affected us. It is lastly because of them, that we hurried to leave our careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    <\/td>\nStart in Leer to the first circumnavigation in west east direction<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1990<\/td>\nJourney via the Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands and Brazil, to Tierra del Fuego and to Cape Horn. Fire on board in Mar del Plata, cruises in Tierra del Fuego. New Years at Cape Horn.<\/td>\n9,998*)<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1991<\/td>\nOn May 24th, stranding in crater lake of Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula (63\u00b0S, 60\u00b0W), ten month winter, just the two of us. We first visited this island, which belongs to the south Shetland group, in January 1982 as part of our trip around South America 1981\/82. Provisional repair and return to South America end of December.<\/td>\n3,782<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1992<\/td>\nRepairs over several months with native Indians of Tierra del Fuego in Puerto Williams in Beagle Canal. End of winter, test trip to Staten Island, Argentina and Cape Horn.<\/td>\n1,165<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1993-1998<\/td>\nSix-year circling of Antarctica and stops to most peripheral islands<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In total we made five trips to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific south polar sea. As soon as the southern winter approached with pack ice, ship-freezing, storms and darkness, we headed out to more moderate latitudes and subtropic regions, where we overhauled the FREYDIS and sailed to mostly islands specified as nature reserves.<\/td>\n

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    1993<\/td>\nAtlantic from Cape Horn, South America via the Falklands, South Georgia, south Sandwich Islands and Tristan da Cunha to Capetown, South Africa. In southern winter detour to the Comoro Islands and Madagascar.<\/td>\n10,110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1994<\/td>\nFrom Richardsbay via the islands of Prince Edward, Crozet, Kergu\u00e9len , Heard, St. Paul to Fremantle. In southern winter, Great Australian Bight, Bass Strait, Tasmania and Tasman Sea to Nelson, New Zealand.<\/td>\n10,760<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1995<\/td>\nRound New Zealand: North Island, South Island, and Stewart Island. Highlights include the three visits to the volcanic White Island, New Zealands most active volcano . Here we celebrate our silver wedding anniversary.<\/td>\n3,807<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1996<\/td>\nJourney to the Ross Sea and Scott Island. On both legs of trip we are the first yacht to visit all the subantarctic islands of New Zealand and Australia: Snares, Aucklands, Macquarie, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham.<\/td>\n8,685<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1996\/1997<\/td>\nPacific from New Zealand via Kermadecs, Beveridge, Cooks, Society Islands, Tuamotus, Gambiers, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Sala y G\u00f3mez, Phantom Island Podesta, Juan Fernandez to Valdivia, Chile. Following through the Patagonian canals and Tierra del Fuego to Cape Horn.<\/td>\n7,376<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1998<\/td>\nThe last \u2013 and sixth since 1982 \u2013 Antarctic expedition takes us back to the Antarctic Peninsula and finally to Deception Island, to the crater lake where we spent a winter six years before.<\/td>\n9,481<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    <\/td>\nDistance covered in round Antarctica from Deception to Deception: 44, 077 nautical miles<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    *)<\/sup> numbers are \u00bbnautic miles\u00ab.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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    And the journey is still not over yet<\/h3>\n

    T<\/big>o our own suprise, the end of our first round the world trip at Cape Horn was the start of a second circumnaviation: this time the classic trade wind route from east to west. What spurred us on was an invitation from GEO Magazine to a four-month expedition in Melanesia with several GEO-Teams aboard the FREYDIS.<\/p>\n

    The second global trip I would like to list as a chronological table \u2013 several GEO publications and a GEO book have been published about the travelled section in Melanesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    July 1998 to July 2002: The second circling voyage from east to west on the classic route<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1998\/07
    \nto
    \n1999\/07<\/td>\n    		First leg of journey to starting point Noumea\/New Caledonia from Cape Horn via Tierra del Fuego and the Patagonian canals in strong winter to Robinson Crusoe, San Felix and Ambrosio, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Society Islands, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga , Fiji to Noumea<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1999<\/td>\nFour month GEO expedition with three teams through Melanesia
    \nTeam 1 Vanuatu
    \nTeam 2 Solomon Islands
    \nTeam 3 Papua New Guinea
    \nAt the end of the expedition we brought the FREYDIS to Townsville, Australia.<\/td>\n    		8,672<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2000<\/td>\nAustralia: total overhauling of FREYDIS in a shipyard in Townsville, Queensland.
    \nGreat Barrier reef, Torres-Strait, Arafura-Sea, Darwin<\/td>\n    		1,719<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2001<\/td>\nIndian Ocean from Darwin via Kimberly Coast, Broome, Bali, Christmas Island,
    \nCocos Keeling, Rodriques, Cargados Carachos Shoals, Mauritius, Reunion, southeast Madagascar to Durban South Africa and from there along the coast to Capetown.<\/td>\n    		7,937<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2002<\/td>\nPart 1: Atlantic Ocean from east to west: From Capetown, South Africa to Walvis Bay, Namibia (Heide\u2019s 60th birthday), St. Helena, Ascension, Jao Pessoa, Brazil.
    \nPart 2: Atlantic Ocean from west to east: From Brazil to Fernando de Noronha, then over the equator \u2013 equatorial baptism and Erichs 60th birthday coincided \u2013 Cape Verdes, Azores, Scilly Islands, Ile d\u2019Quessant near Brest, English Channel, St. Malo, Oostende, Borkum to Leer.<\/td>\n    		10,771<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    A<\/big>fter 12 years and 94,000 nautical miles, with many highs and lows, on July 20th, 2002 we are back in Leer, Germany. Let us close with Psalm 90,10:<\/p>\n

    The years of our life are seventy,
    \nor even by reason of strength eighty;
    \nyet their span is but toil and trouble;
    \nthey are soon gone, and we fly away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Preparation and Beginning of our seventh journey round the world<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    2003<\/td>\nThorough overhaul of FREYDIS after 25 years and more than 200,000 nm, the equivalent of ten perimeter of the globe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2004<\/td>\nStart in August: Leer \u2013 Canal \u2013 Lisboa \u2013 Madeira \u2013 Canary Islands \u2013 SAL\/Cap Verde<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2005<\/td>\nJan. \u2013 May : Cap Verde \u2013 Grenada \u2013 Isla Margarita \u2013 Curacao \u2013 St. Blas \u2013 Panama \u2013 Costa Rica \u2013 Acapulco\/Mexiko \u2013 La Paz\/Californian Peninsula<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2006<\/td>\nJan \u2013 March : La Paz\/Baja California \u2013 Hilo\/Big Island \u2013 Kauai\/Hawaii
    \nMay \u2013 August: Kauai \u2013 Midway-Atoll \u2013 Aleutians \u2013 Alaska-Peninsula \u2013 Prince William Sound<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2007<\/td>\nKenai-Peninsula – Kodiak – Alaska-Peninsula – Islands in the Bering Sea – Kotzebue\/Tschucktschen Sea – King Cove\/Alaska<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2008<\/td>\nAlaska-Peninsula- Kodiak – Kenai-PI – PWS – Kajak Isl. – Fjords in the Gulf of Alaska (Icy-, Yakutat- and Lituya Bay) – Inside Passage – Campbell River\/Vancouver Island<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2009<\/td>\nCampbell River – Vancouver – San Francisco – San Diego<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2010<\/td>\nSan Diego – Hawaii – Midway-Atol – Minami Tori Shima – Chichi Shima – Izu Islands – Iwaki\/Honshu<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2011<\/td>\nplanned: Iwaki – NE-Coast of Honshu – Hokkaido South- and East-Coast – Kamtschatka – Aleutians – King Cove\/Alaska Peninsula<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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