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Harker on Last Leg of Solo Circumnavigation

By Richard | December 5, 2007 | South Africa |
As Harker rounded Cape Point, South Africa, he returned to the Atlantic Ocean, from where he started his circumnavigation.

© Mike Harker

Mike Harker, whose Lake Arrowhead home burned in the recent Southern California wildfires, reports that he’s left the Indian Ocean and is back in the Atlantic with his Hunter Mariner 49 Wanderlust III, and therefore has just 6,500 miles to go in his very rapid and mostly-singlehanded circumnavigation. Harker was a novice sailor in ’00 when he did the Ha-Ha, but subsequently singlehanded across the Atlantic, cruised the Med and back across the Atlantic, then sailed to French Polynesia before returning to California.

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