Famed British ocean racer Pete Goss has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles at sea and became a hero in the 1996 Vendee Globe for rescuing French competitor Raphaël Dinelli. Now retired from ocean sailing competitions, this sailing, sea kayaking and polar exploration specialist lives a different kind of adventures. Pete and his wife Tracey […]
Swiftsure Yachts is excited to present the 2015 Garcia Exploration 45 Arctic Monkey at the Seattle Boat Show from January 24 to February 1. Located at South Lake Union, Arctic Monkey has just had a price reduction to $595,000 and will be in Slip 39 during show hours. Come by and see her well conceived […]
Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail……. can keep Swiftsure Yachts from doing a sea trial. Flyer, our 2008 Outbound 46 listing, was sea trialed on Tuesday, January 14 with Pete McGonagle and Bay Area buyers, with the survey set for the following day. For some reason, no other boats were out sailing on […]
Swiftsure Yachts has a longstanding relationship with John Neal and Amanda Swan and Mahina Expeditions. Their seminars and sage advice to cruisers have launched many an epic cruise. In anticipation of the upcoming Seattle Boat Show John Neal does a little Q and A with our own Pete McGonagle about trends in the current cruising […]