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> Depart from Zanzibar with its rich spice route trading heritage

> Learn the craft of Celestial Navigation, plotting your route across the Indian Ocean in real time with hands on lessons

> Enjoy true freedom and space on an epic passage across one of the world’s great oceans

> Spot marine life throughout your voyage, and star-gaze far away from light pollution

> Be aboard for welcome celebrations as our new ship arrives home to Australian waters in Fremantle.

Expedition Highlights

Indian ocean crossing:a navigation voyage

Prices are per person, listed in Australian Dollars (AUD) and include GST. *Limited sole use occupancy available.

DEPARTURES & FARES19 Nights - Departs: 6 March 2021 from Zanzibar - Coral Geographer

2021 VOYAGES

Bridge Deck Balcony Suite

Explorer Deck

Promenade Deck

Coral Deck

Twin Share $18,690 $13,330 $11,320 $9,980

Sole Use n/a $19,995* $16,980* $14,970* Sail from Zanzibar all the way to Australia. Take 50% off your cruise fare on the Navigational Crossing of the Indian Ocean when you combine it with the adjoining Small Islands at the Edge of Africa.

FROM ZANZIBAR TO FREMANTLE

AUSTRALIA

Fremantle

Zanzibar

ITINERARY: 19 NIGHTS ZANZIBAR TO FREMANTLEDAY 1: DEPART ZANZIBARBoard in Zanzibar, Tanzania, at 5:00pm for a 7:00pm departure.

DAYS 2-19: AT SEA

Spend 18 carefree days at leisure as we cross the Indian Ocean from west to east. As dusk falls each day, join your fellow travellers, the Captain and crew for evening drinks and enjoy the freshly prepared cuisine and warm company of our renowned Australian hospitality team.

Take time to socialise with fellow passengers, catch up on book reading or simply relax as the Indian Ocean slips by. You will share the waves with migratory seabirds and marine life along the way.

Guest presenters, storytellers and an extensive onboard program with hands-on practical lessons will be on offer throughout the voyage, including an instructed program teaching traditional Celestial Navigation.

In this age of GPS, autopilots and gyrocompasses, there is still a place for traditional navigation skills. Guests aboard Coral Geographer for her crossing of the Indian Ocean will be part of a unique experience – using only the instruments that were available to the navigators in Age of Exploration, they will learn the skills necessary to navigate across an ocean.

Each guest will receive the following

• Basic training sextant• Set of plotting instruments• Blank plotting charts• Indian Ocean chart• Logbook

Over the first days of the voyage, guests will receive an introduction on the basic theory of navigation and instruction chart plotting, reading a compass and log, and taking astronomical sights.

Using pro-forma tables and with the assistance of the professional navigators aboard, complex mathematical calculations are minimised, so that all participants can fully take part. Additional instruction will be available for anyone that desires a more in-depth course or already has some navigational experience. Guests are encouraged to bring their own instruments if they wish.

The programme is intended to be run without any access to modern instruments. Participants will regularly read the magnetic compass and the traditional towed log that will be streamed over the stern and record these readings in the logbook. Using these figures, a dead-reckoning position will be plotted on the plotting ship and corrected when possible by sun observations using the sextant and chronometer. A daily noon position will then be transferred to the Indian Ocean chart to track our progress. We will encourage no access to the modern bridge instruments (such as GPS, plotters or gyrocompasses) – and seek to compare our traditional results upon our arrival in Fremantle.

The programme has been developed by Coral Expeditions Senior Master Gary Wilson, who has extensive experience instructing in traditional navigation methods.

At the end of the voyage, you will have a unique record of your ocean crossing, recorded on the chart and in the logbook, and a set of instruments to take home.

DAY 20: ARRIVE FREMANTLEArrive in Fremantle to disembark at 9:00am.

Enjoy a signature Welcome event in Fremantle as Coral Geographer arrives on Australian shores for the first time.

INCLUSIONS• All excursions• Presentations, briefings & workshops by our highly experienced Expedition Team• All meals, with morning and afternoon tea • Selected beers, wines, juices & soft drinks with lunch and dinner service, and 24 hour tea and coffee• Daily room service• Post-cruise transfers • Open bridge access and engine room tours• All fees & gratuities

In times past, an Indian Ocean crossing was a sailor’s rite of passage, a truly daunting task on a wooden sailing vessel. Now you can create your own legends on the new expedition ship Coral Geographer as she sails east in a southern arc from the island of Zanzibar off the African coast and arrives on Australian shores for the first time at Fremantle. The 19-night ocean passage allows you to settle into the rhythm of life at sea.

This epic Indian Ocean crossing offers a rare opportunity to navigate one of the world’s great oceans in the wake of famed explorers like Dirk Hartog and Willem de Vlamingh. An extensive onboard program is offered, including Celestial Navigation lessons and an accompanying souvenir chart. Guest presenters and storytellers will be your diversions as you share the waves with migratory seabirds and marine life. If you relish the adventure of an extended ocean crossing, join us onboard Coral Geographer for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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