In July 2005 Georgs started a thread Circumnavigators Under Power I contributed by asking to hear from those planning a circumnavigation. You can check out all the post here: http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2005-July/date.h tml#start July 11th Eric and Christi Grab were planning to start in 2007. July 11th Scott Bulger was looking for a boat and planning to leave within four years. July 12th David and Lowie Bock were taking delivery of their Nordhavn 55-04 and stated their dreams were becoming a reality. July 12th Willy on Invader #1 wanted to depart Vancouver by 2010. July 13th Ben Gray was 2,350 miles into his circumnavigation which he completed. I would like to hear how your plans turned out. As for us? We took delivery of our Diesel Duck 462 in June 2007 and have so far completed twenty degrees of our circumnavigation. I hope the remaining three hundred forty are as much fun. We left the boat yard in China and have visited Hong Kong, one year in the Philippines, cruised though Indonesia, visited Borneo twice including circling it once, stayed two months in Singapore, spent three weeks in Thailand, and a little over a year here in Malaysia. Early next year we will cross the Indian Ocean, transit the Red Sea, and enter the Mediterranean Sea. I have made a lot of revisions and improvements to Dora Mac to add to her capability and comfort. I have run aground three times but was able to get off each time. That has been our biggest drama and all I would wish for. There was that one time a mooring line broke in Thailand at 11:00 PM but we got the boat started and underway without incident. We are currently in Georgetown, Penang, an island off the NW side of the Malay Peninsula and just south of Langkawi. Larry Briggs is in Langkawi with Neptunes Chariot. I have been corresponding with him by email and hope to meet him in person before he or we leave the area. He is on his third circumnavigation. I think if I can get him on my boat I will have him sign his name on the bulkhead in the salon. Im back trying to find out information about the film made in 1923 about the first power boat circumnavigator A. Y. Cowen on Speejacks. The name of the film is Around the World on Speejacks and information can be found at: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=576569 You can vote to have it converted to DVD, I have voted twice and I think Larry may have voted once. I also sent them an email requesting information about getting the movie released. I have read the book by Dale Collins, Seatracks of the Speejacks Cowens wife was supposed to write it but when they got to Australia they hired Collins whose book was published in 1923. In 1926 it was re-published with the first chapter being the one written by the wife and covers the trip up to Australia. The latter is the one I have. Randal Johnson www.mydoramac.com _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL :en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3

Randall, How is your IVECO diesel engine doing? Ron Rogers