Our aim is to find an alternative to the more common sailing route along which is travelled usually.
Now a rough description of our planned route:
We will start most probably on the 1st of May 2009 from Corfu, Greece and via Algeria we will go to Lisbon.
The 1st of June 2009 starts the actual sailing trip over the Atlantic Ocean in northwestern direction to Greenland.
Continuing through the Baffin Bay to Canada.
In Resolute - a small town at the beginning of the Northwest Passage - we will wait for the short icefree period in that region.
There are two options to continue: on the more common southern route crossing Cambridge Bay or the shorter northern one through the Viscount Melville Sund.
If luck will be on our side, we will sail through the Beaufort Sea to the Bering Strait and reach the Aleutian Islands.
To save time, we will probably sail most part of the Pacific Ocean without interruptions until reaching the Marshall Islands.
Our next stop than will be in Papua New Guinea.
We will sail through the clutter of islands passing Indonesia and than through the Strait of Malacca/Malaysia into the Bay of Bengal.
After a stopover in Burma we want to sail to Sri Lanka and than head for the Maledives.
Now it is just a stone´s throw to the Red Sea - passing the Arabian Sea and the pirates.
We will enter and reach the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal
- back to where we started.

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