[PUP] Record-setting passagemakers

[Georgs Kolesnikovs]

FYI:

Two unique passagemakers that made history are for sale.

One is Idlewild, a 57-foot aluminum George Buehler custom design:

--The first yacht, power or sail, to circumnavigate by starting far 
inland and by using portages to reach the sea.
--The first power yacht to circumnavigate via the Northwest Passage 
in less than one year.
--The first Canadian yacht, power or sail, to circumnavigate via the 
Northwest Passage.
--Third power yacht to transit the Northwest Passage, the first to do 
so West to East.

In the course of her voyage around the planet, Idlewild made the 
longest nonstop passage ever attempted by a recreational powerboat, 
4,495 nautical miles from South Africa to Australia arriving with 
only 25 gallons of fuel remaining in the main tanks. Reserve fuel was 
carried but not needed.

http://tinyurl.com/2n3fb3
http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/news/idlewildcomplete.html

The other is Passagemaker, the Robert Beebe design with which he 
proved that motorboats can make long ocean passages in comfort, 
safety and with dispatch. Beebe's 50,000 sea miles in the wooden 
50-footer launched the modern-day trawler yacht era after he wrote 
Voyaging Under Power.

http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/news/passagemakerforsale.html

I have no commercial or financial interest in either yacht. I'm 
posting the information only because they are two yachts that hold on 
extraordinary place in our trawler world and deserve to find owners 
who appreciate them.

--Georgs
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Georgs Kolesnikovs
Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997