Crossig oceans is a necessity if you want to get your yacht to the good stuff on either side. But, of course, the owner doesn't need to be on board – that's what paid crew (or even a yacht transport ship) are for. The conventional view is that two weeks and 3,000 nautical miles of rolling Atlantic – with bad weather ora technical failure the only likely source of excitement – make the Atlantic milk run a chore, a bore, even a little frightening: a venture you'd probably want to get a pay cheque out of.
But three owners defied this received wisdom to see other possibilities in joining their sailing yachts across the pond, from Europe to the Caribbean. Ilia Rigas and her daughter Nepheli, owners of 50-metre Almyra II, started from Syracuse in Sicily, while Nina Vibe-Petersen, owner of 54-metre Parsifal III and 52-metre Q, started from Gibraltar on the latter. Both yachts left in November last year to arrive in St Barths.
