Tracking Oliver
Phoenix Do Mar · solo · Pacific Northwest to the equator

Tracking Oliver

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Passage

Port Townsend

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Sea state

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Forecast notes

Daily log

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Weather ahead

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    About the voyage

    Skipper
    Oliver Widger
    Clackamas, Oregon, with the cat Phoenix. Posts as Sailing With Phoenix
    Boat
    Phoenix do Mar
    1998 Pacific Seacraft 40 cutter, rebuilt in Port Townsend
    Departed
    Oct 2, 2026
    Point Hudson, Port Townsend WA
    Plan
    Solo, nonstop, around the world
    about 30,000 nm, eight to nine months
    Stated milestones
    Equator, Cape Horn, home
    no waypoints or direction published

    Rounding Cape Horn from the Pacific side means going eastabout, so the loop drawn on the chart runs Horn, Good Hope, Leeuwin, Tasmania, New Zealand, then north up the Pacific. Everything past the equator is inferred from his stated milestones and the classic route, and the dashed line will be redrawn as he announces more.