David Thoreson will speak in Breckenridge Saturday about an amazing sailing adventure
This article was first published in the Summit Daily News. By Kathryn Corazzelli.
Experience a 28,000 mile sailing journey around the Americas — in only an hour — with expedition photographer David Thoreson.
Thoreson is speaking Friday at the Breckenridge Colorado Mountain College about his sailing adventures throughout his life (which amount to 65,000 miles traveled), and most recently, a scientific journey around the North and South American continents. In 2007, Thoreson and the crew of Cloud Nine became the first American sailors in history to transit the Northwest Passage from east to west. In 2009, Thoreson became the only American sailor to ever navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions. In June of 2010, Thoreson — who fell in love with sailing as a boy on a lake in Iowa — completed the 28,000 mile circumnavigation around the Americas.
That trip, which started and ended in Seattle, was “partly an adventure, but really about science and education,” Thoreson said. “We were doing this as part of an ocean and sea awareness program.”
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