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Captain Dena Hankins and James Lane left Seattle, WA, aboard a William Garden Seawolf ketch in 1999 and have been traveling ever since. They sailed the Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands, the Georgia Strait and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the northern Pacific Ocean, the Humbolt Bay and the San Francisco Bay. There, they downsized to a Gulf 32 pilothouse sloop and jumped the trades to the Big Island of Hawai’i. They sailed throughout the archipelago for a year and sold that boat in Oahu in order to move to the Indian Subcontinent in 2008.

In 2009, they chose the Chesapeake Bay as the restarting point for their circumnavigation, titled “Around the World in 80 Years”. They settled aboard their new-old boat, a 1961 Philip Rhodes Chesapeake sloop, and gunkholed from Norfolk to Baltimore in the snow and Baltimore to New York in a late spring tropical depression, but found only gorgeous weather in the Long Island Sound, Buzzard’s Bay, Cape Cod Bay, and Massachusetts Bay. They spent 4 months cruising in Maine before returning to the Long Island Sound, where they wintered then crewed on a tall ship.

In 2015 they joined the staff of cruising editors for the Waterway Guide and once again sailed to Maine, only this time, they were going to document the adventure for their peers.

In 2016/17 they moved back to India for another writing sabbatical and returned the following spring to continue sailing the North Atlantic ICW for another year as cruising editors.

They sold S/V S.N. Nomad in the summer of 2018 and moved aboard their newer-new sailboat, S/V S.N. Cetacea. She's a 1984 Baba 30 sailboat that will help the two salty loons continue their 80 year (maybe!!!) global circumnavigation.

Dena is a multi-published novelist and short-story writer (www.denahankins.net) with a 50-ton Master License. James is an accomplished photographer and indefatigable traveler, storyteller, and sailor. Together, they can face anything, even a bilge cleaning, and honestly say they’re living the dream.