Year 9

Gulf of Mexico (southern shore, USA)

New Orleans, Pensacola, Panama City.

Leaving New Orleans, we sail east along the southern shore of the USA, along the Gulf of Mexico, stopping at a few places for the night as we work out way to Pensacola and Panama City.

Florida

Tampa Bay, Key West, Matecombe Key

We reach Florida at Tampa Bay and stop for a few days, then head south, making two stops on our way to Key West. We head northeast up the Florida Keys to Matecombe Key, then get ready to cross the Gulf Stream.

Bahamas

Port Royal, Great Harbour, Rose Island, North Eleuthera, Rock Sound, West bay, Hawk's Nest Marina, Waterbaby Calabash Bay, February Point, Lee Stocking, Rudder Cut Cay, Staniel Cay, Compass Cay, Shround Cay, Spanish Wells, Cross Harbour, Marsh Harbour.

We clear into the Bahamas at Port Royal, then head for Rose Island (Nassau) before heading east to North Eleuthera before we start out clockwise sail around some of the Bahama islands. After completing that loop, we stop in Spanish Wells, then cross to Marsh Harbour to wait for a weather window to start our crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

Bermuda

St. George's

On making the 850 mile sail to Bermuda over about four days, we will wait here for the next weather window before the next and longest leg of the Atlantic crossing, west to east. That will take us to the Azores.

Azores

Islands: Faial, Sao Jorge, Graciosa, Terceira, and Sao Miguel

We make landfall and clear in at Horta, then sail around the major Azores' islands, clearing out at Ponta Delgada to head north toward Ireland.

Ireland & Northern Ireland

Ireland: Bantry, Glengarriff, Kilrush, Galway, Roundstone, Broadhaven, Rosses Point, Rospenna.
Northern Ireland: Londonderry, Coleraine, Balleycastle.

Having previously sailed the Irish Sea, we take the more difficult route around the west side of Ireland, headed north to Northern Ireland.

Scotland

The Caledonian Canal

We sailed Scotland's west and north side in year four, but now we will head through the heart of the country, taking the Caledonian Canal from Fort William to Iverness. Once out of the canal, we will set sail for the most northern United Kingdome islands.

Orkney and Shetland Islands

Kirkwall, Lerwick

Leaving from Wick, we cross to Kirkwall, on Orkney Island. When a weather window presents, we will sail to Fair Island on our way to Lerwick, on Shetland Island. Then we sail up to the northern tip of Shetland, arriving at Buness where we wait for a good weather window to cross the dangerous North Sea to Norway.

Norway (north bound)

Maloy, Sykkylven, Geiranger, Langevag, Alesund, Kristiansund, Vallersund, Rorvik, Sandnessjoen, Sorfugloy, Reine, Svolvaer, Trollfjord, Korsnes, Stetind

We arrive in Norway at Maloy to clear into the Schengen, then head north. We work our way up using inland passages as much as possible, headed for the Lofoten Islands, which are above the Arctic Circle. Once visiting those islands, we turn around and head south.

Norway (South bound)

North: Korsnes, Sorfugloy, Nesna, Ottersoya, Sandnes, Kristiansund, Alesund.

Returning south, we still stay in protected waters as much as possible, we visit some new stops and eventually reach larger cities, ending with Alesund.

Norway (headed east)

South: Leikanger, Maloy, Floro, Leirvik, Flam, Bergen, Haugesund, Jorpeland, Lysebotn, Stravanger.
East: Egersund, Farsund, Kristiansand, Arendal, Helgeroa, Tonsberg, Oslo.

Now we start our turn to head east and the north again , we head up another fjord. Once we come back out, we make our way east on our way to Oslo. On the way to the capitol, we visit many anchorages along the way where we can hide out of the weather turns bad.

Sweden, Denmark, & Germany

Sweden: Havstenssund, Stenungsund, Varberg.
Denmark: Coppenhagen
Sweden: Kalmar Marina

With the weather turning cold, we head south, stopping in three Swedish ports before visiting Copenhagen in Denmark. Then we finish this seventh year by sailing to Kalmar Marina where we will put S/V Lynx on the hard at for the cold northern winter.

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