2022 Passages
Below you will find the schedule of our passages
& workshops, including dates, destinations, and price.
John Kretschmer Sailing & Workshop Schedule 2022
Find our schedule in the table below and keep scrolling down to see Nathan and Vivian's available passages aboard Ultima and select yachts.
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These have been challenging times for all of us but hopefully the worst of the pandemic is finally behind us. Beginning in 2022, Quetzal, Tadji and I are launching "The Big One." This is a far flung, five year circumnavigation that will take us to latitudes high and low, and longitudes big and small. From Greenland to Antarctica, from Polynesia to South Africa, we will explore all the oceans of our planet. Tadji and I have been dreaming of this voyage from the day we met and now is the time. Of course, we will continue to offer training passages aboard Quetzal along the way, that's what we do, that's part of our sailing DNA and we hope that you will share this grand adventure with us.
We will continue to offer our both onsite Offshore Sailing workshops in exotic locations around the world and our workshops in Solomons, MD. We will also continue to offer occasional passages on other boats.
Ultima Sailing & Workshop Schedule 2022
We are very pleased to announce our 2022 schedule with plenty of exciting passage opportunities in the Atlantic!
We have also added workshops to our schedule, hoping to add our knowledge and experience to new boat owners and liveaboards on their journey to cruising.
Many thanks for your interest in John Kretschmer Sailing, we appreciate your ongoing support and friendship through the years.
This was a once in a lifetime adventure, blue water sailing was something I had been dreaming about for years. I had daysailing experience before embarking onto Ultima with Nathan and Vivian on the trip from Horta to Porto to Lisbon, but no offshore passage making. And this was exactly the training passage I needed, sailing dreams made real. We had a great crew and sailing just over 1000 nautical miles together makes for real friendships, and I can’t praise Nathan and Vivian enough for welcoming us to Ultima. From the safety talk soon after boarding, with everyone’s roles being very clearly defined, to the general companionship during the day, Vivian’s great cooking and Captain’s hour with everyone on deck, to the routine of the night watches, this was home for 17 days.
I loved the endless variety of the sea, the ever changing waves and skies and light. And we saw sperm whales, lots and lots of dolphins, a shark and lots of birds and Portuguese Men of War. The dolphins, and their exuberant play in our wake, always brought everyone up on deck to share in their joy. These are memories I will cherish. At the core this was a training passage, and passage making is different than daysailing or even coastal cruising. From Nathan and Vivian we learned about provisioning, routing around weather systems, how much sail to have and why, and mitigating risk and effort and the unwavering attention to safety. They emphasized the importance of regular attention and maintenance and, because it is a particular interest of mine as I recently acquired my own sailboat, they allowed me to practice maintenance (supervised!) on theirs while we were at the slip in Porto.
can’t wait until my next trip; I stand corrected, once in a lifetime is just not enough!