Vancouver Island South – Club Night: Northwest Passage Aboard Traversay III

Traversay III is a Waterline 43, designed by Ed Rutherford and built of steel at Sidney, British Columbia in 2000.  She is cutter rigged, with roller furled genoa and hanked-on stays’l. She is 45 feet overall with a 13 ½ foot beam and 7 ½ foot draft.

Owners Laurence Roberts and Mary Anne Unrau have sailed over 90,000 miles in the boat since her first launch.  They have crossed every meridian and reached latitudes from 65 S on the Antarctic Peninsula to 80 N at the northwest tip of Spitsbergen.  Ports of Call include such diverse spots as Pitcairn, South Georgia, Hamburg, Darwin and the Northwest Passage, with lots of places between.

This month they will tell us the story of how, in 2013, they sailed from St. Katharines Marina, London in late March and voyaged to Victoria, British Columbia in October, via south English ports, the Irish Sea, the Hebrides, Iceland, Greenland, the Northwest Passage and Alaska..

Please join us for more icy adventures!