And Away He Goes

"Unless you hear from me otherwise before 9 a.m. Tuesday, Pacific Time," writes five-time circumnavigator Webb Chiles, "I’m gone."

As reported in the current edition of Latitude 38 magazine, Chiles, now 72, will attempt to be the first to sail around the globe in a Moore 24 — his called Gannet. He will set sail tomorrow for Hilo, Hawaii, then make his way across the Pacific to New Zealand, where he’ll decide whether to continue west or turn east for a Cape Horn rounding in 2015.

You can follow the 24-footer’s track here, and learn more about this amazing sailor at his website. We wish him the very best of luck.