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This website tracks ships around the world if they are equipped with AIS.  On Odyssey our AIS works whenever our radar is turned on.  As long as you know approximately where we are in the world, you can locate and track us.
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Gateway Arch in St Louis

 
WELCOME
 to
TISCHTRAVELS.COM
 a photo and journalistic log of our odyssey

Thank you for looking in on us as we pursue our dream of circumnavigting the earth aboard our yacht Odyssey.  You can follow our progress via our Captain's Log,  pictures, tentative (and probably overly ambitious) cruising schedule, maps and other things of interest.  Please let us know what you think of our website, as well as any suggestions you may have or travel recommendations that come to mind.
 
 
As of April 14 we have updated our site with new photos of our trip by car from Ann Arbor to Key West  via the East Coast, and then back to Ann Arbor via the Mississippi River.  We are still waiting for our new Odyssey to arrive in Florida, which we expect sometime this summer.

        
let's stay in touch and share adventures
 
 
 Rebecca & Randy
 
Our original boat was a
Nordhavn 55 named 
ODYSSEY
She was sold in November 2011 and our new boat will be arriving in Florida later than we expected, and hopefully in mid-summer 2012.  She will also be named Odyssey and is also a Nordhavn ocean going yacht:
Length: 69 feet
Beam: 20.4 feet
Draft 6'10" ft
Displacement: 235,000 lbs
Range: 3000 nm      
Main Diesel engine is a
400 hp John Deer
She ws built in the Ta Shing Shipyard in Tiawan
 

We completed our  6,200 trip from Dana Point, California to Newport, Rhode Island in July, 2011.  We cruised down the Baja and the Pacific coast of Mexico with stops at places such as Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, and Hautulco near Oaxaca.   We crossed the Gulf of Tehuantepec, visited Guatemala and put in at El Salvador for a week.  Then we sailed for Costa Rica, and after a few stops in route, we moored at Papagayo for a month, and visited Los Suenos, Quepos and Golfito.   After a brief trip home, we rejoined the boat and headed for Panama and  the Pacific Islands of Parida and Coiba.   We transited the Canal in late April and then cruised to the San Blas Islands where we enjoyed a week with the Kuna Indians; we then crossed the Caribbean Sea to Montego Bay, Jamaica.  From there, we sailed past Cuba and Haiti, up the Windward Passage and headed for the Bahamas.  We enjoyed the white sand and friendly people and our days in Georgetown and the Chat'n Chill Tiki Bar.  After ten days in the Bahamas we put in at West Palm Beach, Florida.  After a brief stopover, we moved up the east coast to Norfolk, NYC, Long Island and finally Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Odyssey I has been sold and we now await delivery of our new 68 Ft Nordhavn.   We are looking forward to our new Nordhavn under construction in Taiwan.   She should be arriving in Florida sometime this summer.   We hope to be underway again later this year.
 
April 2012  - We are  in Ann Arbor after spending two months in Florida waiting for our new boat.  In the meantime we have traveled around Florida and enjoyed our 4,500 mile trip around the eastern United States.  Our travels took us through Richmond, Chappel Hill, and Savanah on the East Coast, then down to Key West in Florida, and then up through Naples, Talahassee, Mobile, Biloxi, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg, Memphis, St. Louis, Springfield, and finally home to Ann Arbor.  It was a fantastic trip. 

We have written a new Captain's Log and placed new pictures covering our travels on the website.