Back at the helm - sailing the Yaghan to Antarctica, Patagonia and the South Pacific

The big adventure begins when Yaghan leaves Bullando Marina in Stockholm on June 1, 2006. Arne and Helene Martensson have both left important banking jobs in order to take on an entirely different kind of challenge - circumnavigating the world. Arne is chairman of Handelsbanken as well as on the board of some of Swedens lagerst companies when he and Helene decide to pursue their dream and sail around the world. They travel west through the trade wind belt along the equator in the wake of James Cooks first expedition. They continue all the way down to the dangerous, but beautiful, Antarctic after which they sail up the coast of Chile and around the islands of Patagonia. The Yaghan is a 62-foot Hallberg-Rassy equipped with the latest in modern technology and everrything else that makes a cruise around solitary waters easier. All important functions are doubled as an extra precaution in situations when help is a long way away. Arne and Helene write about how to equip a yacht to cope with an extreme circumnavigation, criteria for weather and route analyses, fantastic scenery and, above all, about their choice to leave the financial world in order to lead another kind of life. The Yaghan website and blog attracted 600.000 hits during the three year circumnavigation and the twenty, ten-minute films at Youtube (subtitles in English, German and 50 other languages) have been wachted 200.000 times during the first year. The channel is Etaomega07. "Back at the helm" describes the first half of the circumnavigation. In May 2011 the book about the second half " In the wake of Cook - sailing the Yaghan to New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the Caribbean" was published  as a Kindle ebook.