Living the dream at sea: Barry Perrins’ voyage

Barry Perrins’ circumnavigation covered roughly 30,000 miles from a June 2016 departure aboard a 36ft steel Van de Stadt sloop, White Shadow, with a routing that included Cape Verde, Barbados, the Panama Canal, French Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Azores and the UK; the voyage required constant passage planning, skipper-only watches, and repeated decisions to abort, hold position or seek assistance during high-risk stretches such as the Tasman Sea, the Pacific doldrums where he was effectively out of sight for 71 days, and the Channel’s conflicting winds on the home leg.