Tidahapah
Guru
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2007
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- Location
- Australia
- Vessel Name
- Flora
- Vessel Make
- Timber southern cray boat
I recently got hold of a small book called “Nordlys Around the World”.
A small self printed book from Jim & Nancy Murphy, who in 1998 did a 5 year circumnavigation in a 52 ft timber motor cruiser.
They had the boat built in Brisbane and for a shakedown cruise went round the top to Fremantle for the first defence of the Americas Cup and back. A fair sort of cruise in anybody’s language.
After that ,said what do we do next, answer “go to the Med” so they did.
After that, across the Atlantic to South America up the Coast into the Great Lakes down the inter Coastal waterway, thru Panama Canal up the West Coast to the top part of Canada/Alaska and then back down to California across the Pacific and home.
Quite awe inspiring for me.
The vessel is a typical wooden motor cruiser as found on the Queensland coast here in Australia.
Specs
Length: 16.2 mts
Beam: 5 mts
Draught: 1.8 mts
Displacement: 32 Tonnes
Engine: Gardner 6 LXB
This is no special designed off shore cruiser and this couple took off in 1998 (before GPS) and did the whole bit.
Just shows that it can be done and doesn’t require millions of dollars.
They did 52,000 nautical miles, 7968 engine hours and burnt 96000 lts of diesel.
In this time they slipped the boat 7 times but never had any engine trouble, some refrigeration problems and suffered some weather damage to the wheel house in the Bahamas.
To view a photo of boats similar to Nordlys , go to the following web site and check the photos of either Flemingo or Waverley
The new owner is a member of the forum.
http://www.millarsphoto.com.au/demo/category/36
The book is not in print but I am in the process of scaning it so as to have a copy.
A small self printed book from Jim & Nancy Murphy, who in 1998 did a 5 year circumnavigation in a 52 ft timber motor cruiser.
They had the boat built in Brisbane and for a shakedown cruise went round the top to Fremantle for the first defence of the Americas Cup and back. A fair sort of cruise in anybody’s language.
After that ,said what do we do next, answer “go to the Med” so they did.
After that, across the Atlantic to South America up the Coast into the Great Lakes down the inter Coastal waterway, thru Panama Canal up the West Coast to the top part of Canada/Alaska and then back down to California across the Pacific and home.
Quite awe inspiring for me.
The vessel is a typical wooden motor cruiser as found on the Queensland coast here in Australia.
Specs
Length: 16.2 mts
Beam: 5 mts
Draught: 1.8 mts
Displacement: 32 Tonnes
Engine: Gardner 6 LXB
This is no special designed off shore cruiser and this couple took off in 1998 (before GPS) and did the whole bit.
Just shows that it can be done and doesn’t require millions of dollars.
They did 52,000 nautical miles, 7968 engine hours and burnt 96000 lts of diesel.
In this time they slipped the boat 7 times but never had any engine trouble, some refrigeration problems and suffered some weather damage to the wheel house in the Bahamas.
To view a photo of boats similar to Nordlys , go to the following web site and check the photos of either Flemingo or Waverley
The new owner is a member of the forum.
http://www.millarsphoto.com.au/demo/category/36
The book is not in print but I am in the process of scaning it so as to have a copy.