3 2     YA C H T I N G     A U G U S T     2 0 1 5“ I T WA S N ’ T W H AT W E P L A N N E D AT A L L .”

– julie nariman, on their crossing to the Azores (above)

THEIR OWN WAYT H R E E I N T R E P I D T R AW L E R OW N E R S S H A R E T H E I R

M O S T M E M O R A B L E PA S S AG E S A N D T H E L E S S O N S T H E Y L E A R N E D A L O N G T H E WAY.

A S T OL D T O J A K E L A M B A ND ROBER T ST EPHENS

OUR MOST EPIC ADVENTURE

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It wasn’t what we planned at all; I was nev-er supposed to cross the Atlantic with Richard. This was Richard’s dream. The original idea was that Richard would take the boat with friends

all the way to Newfoundland and then to Iceland. I would meet him there and then we’d go to Norway.

Then things started to change shortly before Richard was supposed to leave. Everyone who was going started dropping like flies. “I can’t do this. I’m so busy. I can’t go. I got a new job.”

About a month before departure I told Rich-ard that if no one else would go with him, I’d do it. And that totally transformed the trip. Because of icebergs in the North Atlantic we altered our course. Instead of going to Newfoundland, we’d cross straight to the Azores. Honestly, the weather

wasn’t so great through the Atlantic. We didn’t see a lot — a couple of whales every few days. But it was so peaceful. That’s what I’ll always remember. It was hard to picture we were on an ocean. We’d

look around and it felt like we were on a giant lake. That’s when we realized, with boats, most of the

stressful things happen close to shore. Our joke was that once we actually arrived in the Azores the hardest part of the entire trip was docking in this tiny marina. Getting across the Atlantic? It was rel-atively easy. LESSON LEARNED: Richard was always collecting spare parts, and it made him really well prepared to repair anything on our journey. You can never have too many spare parts. YOU’D NEVER

KNOW: The Kadey-Krogen is our first boat and we’ve only owned her for two years. We even did a four-day trawler school in Fort Lauderdale to make sure I’d like the lifestyle. Obviously, I did, so we decided now was the time to follow Richard’s dream. – j.l. more adventures: yac ht i ng maga z i n e .c o m

AN UNEXPECTED TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE TO THE AZORES AND BEYOND

WHO: Julie Nariman and Richard Bost FROM: New York City TRAWLER: Kadey-Krogen 42

Richard continued on to Ireland with the boat after our unplanned — and amazing — time in the Azores. I reluctantly returned home for work.

OUR MOST EPIC ADVENTURE

WE ALWAYS HAVE ON BOARD:

Wine. We wouldn’t have left on any

passage without it. On this trip we left

with a case of Portuguese vinho

verde, Casal Garcia.

T R A N S A T L A N T I C C R O S S I N G

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