A Green Crossing of the Pacific

Have you cruised across the Pacific — West Coast to New Zealand — without using any fuel? Or do you know anybody who has?

While doing some research for a response to a letter that will appear in the July Latitude, we came across a letter in which Randy Ramirez of Stockton and Jenny Haldiman reported sailing their Mariah 31 Mystic to New Zealand in 2011, during which time they only used 12 gallons of fuel. But we seem to remember that one couple sailed their boat across using no diesel fuel at all.

Now that we think of it, Webb Chiles did it with his Moore 24 Gannet and probably some of his other boats. But anybody else? Oh yeah, Lin and Larry Pardey with their boats. Anybody else? Email us here.