Calgary Club Night - The Accidental Circumnavigation

Sailor and adventurer Cresswell Walker shares his tales of sailing more than 50,000 miles in a 10 year ‘accidental’ circumnavigation with his partner Irena. Come hear tales of dodging hurricanes, pirates, and bureaucrats – learning how not to be scared half to death while having the time of your life!

Historically, sailing around the world has been the prerogative of only kings and queens and their privileged vassals. In early times, it took hundreds of men and many ships in an expedition to bear one commander around the globe. Today, it is different. Today, anybody can, for the cost of a car, buy a boat, load it up with groceries and a GPS and set out to see the world under sail. Or so it would seem.

What bigger adventure could there be but to sail off into this magic kingdom? One day in our tiny boat, we point the bow out to sea for an unseen tropical destination thousands of miles away, and enter the world where we are in command of our own lives, where we experience the rush of our own daring and the joy of a successful passage and a distant landfall.