Magnum Completes Her Loop

Back in 2007 when we met Uwe Dobers, Anne Crowley and their lovely 4-year-old daughter Cara in Zihuatanejo, they were headed west with the Pacific Puddle Jump migration aboard their San Francisco-based Peterson 44 Magnum, determined to keep sailing until their money ran out.

Apparently they budgeted well, as they completed a full lap around the planet last month, having covered 35,000 miles and visited 37 countries. For the next few years at least, they intend to keep their feet firmly planted on terra firma, and, as Anne puts it, "start living from our memories."

After a cold, foggy trip up the coast, the Golden Gate came into view and Kara (now 9, we’re guessing) ran around in excitement and said, "I guess I’ll miss the good old boat life." Fittingly, they were greeted at the Gate by Peter Jeal, his wife Suzi and others. It was Peter who’d talked Anne into buying her first boat, a wooden Folkboat, years ago.

Uwe, Anne and Kara will be added to Latitude‘s West Coast Circumnavigator’s List, in company with an impressive list of globe-trotters that dates back to 1925 when Harry Pidgeon completed his historic loop aboard the 34-ft yawl Islander, which he build by hand on a Southern California beach. We’ll have more on the Dobers/Crowley voyage in the February edition of Latitude 38. In the meantime, we invite you to do some armchair voyaging on your own by perusing the circumnavigation roster.