Another cruising family completes another circumnavigation

9:32 PM Thu 8 Jul 2010 GMT

'Estrela and crew return' Doug and Kyle Hopkins

Every day of every year there are brave cruising families setting out to sail unknown seas, many of them headed for circumnavigations, and many will exceed their planned voyage length. Every day of every year there are families returning home after life-enriching experiences, enjoyed as a family. The Hopkins family is one of these, as the following story by Tom Evans tells: More than six years and 40,000 nautical miles after leaving Ned Dimes Marina in Westport, the Hopkins family returned this month to the port where their circumnavigation of the planet began. Looking none the worse for wear -- ...

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by Tom Evans/Sail-World Cruising