VI South Club Night – Panache: Half Way Around the World

Price and Gail (Benny) Powell took delivery of a new Leopard 48 catamaran, Panache, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and started their circumnavigation in January 2017. They spent the first year sailing south through the Leeward and Windward Islands of the Caribbean, turning west at Grenada to explore the Dutch West Indies and Colombia on their way to Panama.

After transiting the Panama Canal, they set off into the Pacific, stopping at the Galapagos Islands en route to French Polynesia, where they cruised the island archipelagos for 18 months. From there they visited the Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji on their way to New Zealand. Shortly after their arrival, COVID happened. The country immediately shut its border and Panache was suddenly “stuck”. Fortunately, they loved NZ and made good use of their time exploring that breathtaking country. The South Pacific finally opened and Panache is currently in Queensland, Australia, after a stopover in New Caledonia.

It’s been six years since they set sail and they are now half-way around the world. They expect it will take another five years to complete their circumnavigation. Come and see the amazing video and photos they have accumulated from all of their adventures in these beautiful and exotic locations. After six years of full-time cruising, Price and Benny are well placed to answer questions you may have on sailing in the Caribbean and the South Pacific.

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Hybrid Meeting Format

In-Person Attendees: For those attending in-person, the format will be very much the same as “normal”. Doors open at 7:00 and meeting starts at 7:30, with presentation immediately to follow.  COVID Protocols have been suspended as per BCA policy available here.

Cost: $5/Members, $10/Non-Members

Virtual Attendees: Virtual club nights (via Zoom) have enabled BCA to continue our monthly meetings and presentations throughout the pandemic, with an added bonus of expanding our community to members and non-members across the globe.  With the return to in-person meetings BCA has continued to provide a virtual component to our club nights as it has significant benefits to our membership. This however comes at a cost for the purchase of cameras, audio equipment and the lost revenue due to a decrease of in-person attendance used to off-set venue costs.

Cost: Members – $5.00 per connected device; Non-Members – $10 per connected device.

Zoom meeting invitation:  Click here to register for and purchase your virtual meeting ticket and receive the Zoom meeting invitation. Please note that you must be signed in to the BCA website to get the member price.

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