Trans-Ocean Honors Long-distance Sailors

Trans-Ocean Honors Long-distance Sailors
Trans-Ocean Honors Long-distance Sailors

Video: Trans-Ocean Honors Long-distance Sailors

Video: Trans-Ocean Honors Long-distance Sailors
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The highlight of the annual meeting of Trans-Ocean (TO), the association for the promotion of deep sea sailing, was the festive award for outstanding sailing trips on Saturday evening. The most important trophy, the TO Prize, went to the 52-year-old civil engineer Bernt Lüchtenborg from Weyhe near Bremen.

Lüchtenborg sailed around the world with his Moody 425 from 2000 to 2005, initially transatlantic to the Caribbean. There he changed his plans (through the Panama Canal into the Pacific) and set course for Cape Horn, which he rounded on January 10, 2003 after a six-month forced break due to a collision with a container ship.

The further course took him over the Pacific islands to Australia, through the Indian Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope back to Cuxhaven. On May 15th of this year Lüchtenborg was back home.

Lüchtenborg's special achievement is that he completed almost the entire journey with one hand, including the last 5800 miles from Cape Town against the wind - and that almost non-stop, only interrupted by a short repair stop.

The TO chairman Bernd Lütgebrune presented the main prize and other TO medals in a festive setting in "Donner’s Hotel" in Cuxhaven. Many of the international guests had already arrived on Friday to exchange views. Among the guests was YACHT author Uwe Röttgering, who reported on his one-handed circumnavigation of the world in an impressive lecture.

Trans-Ocean operates a global network of 170 bases in 48 nations. Its members come from 54 countries.

More information at www.trans-ocean.org.

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