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Evans Starzinger & Beth Leonard are among the leading blue water cruising sailors today.Cruising (maritime)

During the 1990's they completed a Circumnavigation aboard a Shannon 37' ketch, using the typical tropical route but including Cape Hope. During the 2000's they have taken a custom built Van De Stadt designed 47' aluminum fractional sloop above the Arctic Circle and around all five great capes - Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin, South West Cape, Tasmania and South West Cape, New Zealand. This included a 9000mile, 59 day, non-stop leg sailing East in the Southern Ocean from Puerto Williams to Fremantle. In 2007 they completed a second 65,000 miles circumnavigation, east about, under all the great capes and above the Arctic circle. Evans & Beth have been awarded the Vasey Vase by the Ocean Cruising club and the Far Horizons Medal by the Cruising club of America for their voyages. Beth's book "Blue Horizons" has won the Outdoor Literature category of the 2007 National Outdoor Book Awards. Its the first time a sailing book has won the Literature prize. The announcement is on the NOBA website ( http://www.noba-web.org/books07.htm ).

Previous to their first voyage they both worked for McKinsey & Company, a leading corporate strategy consulting firm. In between the two voyages, Evans Starzinger worked for General Electric and Beth wrote three books (The Voyager's Handbook, Blue Horizon's and Following Seas).

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