August 12, 2008

“FLEETWOOD” 'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION 

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Leaving the Golden Gate, March 2005    

"Fleetwood” ’s Circumnavigation Travel Log     A regular updated travel report, with slide shows, http://www.cometosea.us/albums/Slideshow, from departure February 10, 2005 from Gig harbor. "Fleetwood" arrived on June 18, 2007 in Portsmouth, Va. after covering roughly 25,000 nautical miles and visiting 23 countries. This was only a temporary halt for me to visit family and friends on the West Coast and to spend time with no. 3 daughter and her family who live in Chesapeake, Va. I did a winter’s voyage down the Intra Coastal Waterway to the St. Johns River in Northern Florida to do a complete overhaul on “Fleetwood”. For a slide show of this trip go to : www.cometosea.us/albums/ICW.pdf This summer I will be cruising the Chesapeake then go south in the fall. I plan to cross the Atlantic in June of 2009 for a three year cruise through Holland and into the Mediterranean.  So far the voyage has gone through the South Pacific, Philippines, Vietnam, Borneo (Malaysia), Indonesia, Christmas Island, the Seychelles, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, St. Helena, Brazil, French Guyana, Surinam and Trinidad. 

 A photo album of the period from late 1961 till early ’63, when I served in Vietnam. My wife, Joan van Ommen, lived with me in Saigon for one year. This was one of the richest experiences in our lives.  And was a stop for “Fleetwood” in April/May of 2006.

For the 2006 travelogue see : www.cometosea.us/log-Vietnam.htm

See a slide show of the NAJA construction in 1979 with other sailing related photos and the 1982 S/H Trans Pac experience.

“GROOTE BEER”. My association with this renown botterjacht, photo albums and articles I wrote about the “Groote Beer”

LINKS: to web pages of friends:  

Sail The World

The Travels Of Matthias Klemm And Others With Or Without SV “Carpe Diem”

IN THE NEWS: :http://www.48north.com/dec_2007/fleetwood.htm Interview in "48 NORTH" December 2007,

http://www.gateline.com/front/story/9484622p-9395830c.html Interview in "Peninsula Gateway" November 28.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/youandme/story/5870038p-5208609c.html Tacoma News Tribune. Vietnam report June 200

Jack van Ommen's Home Page My personal web page with photo albums of other overseas travels, of friends and family and scenic photos of Gig Harbor and Washington State. As well as memories of my mother’s experiences in World War II concentration camps of Dachau, Ravensbrueck and Vught.

e-mail: jack (no spam) @cometosea.us