The Arnolds Have Been Around

The San Jose-based Arnold family report that in late April they completed their circumnavigation aboard their 45-ft Dufour ketch Fafner, having covered 34,865 miles since they started with the ’06 Baja Ha-Ha. In the Ha-Ha preview, Geoff reported that his parents were "old salts" who had done a circumnavigation with him and his two siblings aboard a 33-footer from ’74-’76 — which was long before today’s modern electronics and other conveniences. So his and Karen’s plan was to take daughters Claire and Alexandra around "when they were old enough to know what was happening, but too young to do anything about it." And they succeeded!

The Arnolds didn’t do your normal Milk Run circuumnavigation. You can tell by looking at the chart and seeing that they finished up via South America, Cape Horn and the Pacific rather than the Panama Canal. That’s why they completed their circumnavigation at Taiohae Bay in the Marquesas, of all places.