Phillip L Rhodes 77 – Sailing Esperanza

Sailing Esperanza, Welcome to our live aboard life aboard our Phillip L Rhodes 77, an aluminum ketch. Join Connie + Dale on our adventures around the world.

Rhodes 77

Welcome to Sailing Esperanza and our live-aboard life

Join Connie and Dale on our adventures around the world. Follow us as we prepare new home on the water, Sailing Esperanza, a Phillip L. Rhodes 77, an aluminum ketch and chase our dreams to exploring this beautiful planet earth.

Join us on our new sailing experiences or follow along as we blog, post on youtube, facebook and Instagram about our travels.

Sailing Esperanza – a story about our preparations as we learn to sail her with our friends and family around British Columbia. We are determined to grab hold of our dream and making it reality, by embarking on an open end sailing adventure.

Salty Sailors and their vessels

Pelagic Australis - Skip Novak was born in 1952. He is best known for his participation in four Whitbread Round the World Yacht Races since 1977. In that year at the age of 25 he navigated the British Cutter Kings Legend to 2nd place.
Skippering the Independent Endeavour in 1979, he won the Parmelia Race from Plymouth to Freemantle Australia.

He skippered Simon Le Bon's Drum in the 1985/86 Whitbread Race coming 3rd. He wrote a book entitled "One Watch at a Time" about this experience and it was published simultaneously in England (David and Charles) and in America (W. W. Norton).

In 1989 he was project manager and skipper of the Fazisi, the first Soviet entry in the Whitbread Race, and he chronicled this watershed event in his book "Fazisi - The Joint Venture" which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in Britain.

Wishing to combine his mountaineering skills (New Zealand and the Alps, expeditions to East Africa, Sikkim, Nepal, Patagonia, South Georgia and Antarctica) with sailing he built the expedition yacht Pelagic in Southampton in 1987 and has since spent every season since in Antarctic waters, many of which were leading combined climbing and filming projects based from his two vessels.

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