Here are some stats on our trip. If you are you interested in any other numbers, let us know and we’ll try to come up with them for you.<\/p>\n
Trip Duration<\/strong> Boat Numbers<\/strong> Passages<\/strong> Stops Along the Way<\/strong> Some Interesting New Activities We Experienced<\/strong> Crime & Corruption<\/strong> How Many:<\/strong> To The Best Of Our Knowledge…<\/strong> Here are some stats on our trip. If you are you interested in any other numbers, let us know and we’ll try to come up with them for you. Trip Duration Overall Time: 2 years, 2 days (733 days, 2008 … Continue reading
\nOverall Time: 2 years, 2 days (733 days, 2008 was leap year).
\nDays at sea\/days on land: 199\/534 = 27% time at sea<\/p>\n
\nAverage speed entire trip: 6 knots
\nEngine Hours: 4,774
\nGenerator hours: 1,902
\nNautical Miles: 28,940 (33,821 statute miles, 53,539 kilometers)
\nDiesel consumed: ~11,800 US gallons, 44,600 liters
\nMain engine failures: None<\/p>\n
\nNumber of passages 7 days or longer: 8 (3 alone, 5 with crew)
\nGuests that did passages with us: 14 (counting the overnight guests on the Panama Canal transit)
\nLongest non-stop passage just the two of us: 10.33 days from Oman to Egypt
\nLongest passage with crew: 21 Days, San Diego to Nuka Hiva (second place was 20 days from the Canary Islands to Guadeloupe)
\nLargest waves encountered: ~18 feet (South Pacific)
\n% time at gale winds (34-40 knot): ~0.5%
\n% time at calm winds (0-4 knots): ~5%
\n% time active fin stabilizers run: 99%
\n% time paravanes deployed (in addition to active fin): 10%<\/p>\n
\nTotal Countries\/Overseas Territories visited on Kosmos: 33
\nTotal Countries\/Overseas Territories visited including land travel: 34
\nTotal stops made with Kosmos: 77
\nTotal places visited including land travel: 111
\nAverage amount of time stayed in a place without moving Kosmos: one week
\nLongest time without moving Kosmos: 59 days, the first time we went to Aghios Nickolaos, Crete, Greece. Made a 3 week trip to the US and did some extensive land travel in Greece in that time.
\nTrips back to CA: 2 trips, each lasting 3 weeks, one to help out with family and one to do some work.<\/p>\n
\nActive Volcanoes
\nBeing an Emergency Medic (Eric)
\nElephant Riding
\nHawngs
\nHitch hiking (Christi)
\nLand Sailing
\nNavigating through heavy traffic in busy ports
\nParking in a slip not as wide as or boat
\nReally bad seas
\nRepairing boat systems
\nSCUBA diving in deep water, caves and shipwrecks
\nSegways
\nSwimming with sharks, dolphins and whales
\nTouching Komodo Dragons
\nTransiting Canals
\nWhite water rafting (Christi)
\nWind Surfing
\nZip Lines<\/p>\n
\nBribes given: One, to transit the Suez Canal in one day. (It is possible some of the agents we used to check in\/out of countries paid bribes, but only the one official ever asked us directly for a bribe)
\nRobberies\/Break-In’s: Zero
\nPick pocketing: One, when Eric’s phone was lifted in the Cairo Airport
\nPirate attacks: Zero<\/p>\n
\nBones did we break?: Eric broke a little toe, none for Christi
\nCameras did we destroy?: 5
\nCars\/scooters did we rent?: 21
\nSCUBA Dives did Christi do?: 55
\nSCUBA Dives did Eric do? : 57
\nPeople were guests aboard Kosmos: 27
\nTimes did we get sea sick?: mild sickness, lots and lots. Serious sickness, Eric once and Christi none.
\nTimes did we have an ailment bad enough to go to the doctor?: Zero for Eric, two for Christi (though the second time she e-mailed a friend for a diagnosis instead of going in).<\/p>\n
\nWe are the fourth smallest power boat to make it around the world, but we think the second smallest boat shouldn’t count because they didn’t have continuous crew.
\nWe are the youngest couple to circumnavigate on a power boat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"