The Arctic to Antarctica: CIGRA Circumnauigates the Americas

The dramatic account of the first circumnavigation of the North and South American continents by the crew of Croatian Tern [Hrvatska Cigra], a 65-foot steel ketch built in Croatia. The yacht officially began its voyage by completing an east-west transit of the Northwest Passage-only the fifth boat to do so in a single season. (Surprisingly, near the halfway point, the ketch encountered the 27-foot Dove III on its west-east passage.)

From the Gulf of Alaska, Croatian Tern sailed to Vanc…