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    • North Pacific Voyage 2002/2003 >
      • San Diego to Hilo, Hawaii 2002
      • Hawaiian Islands
      • Sitka, Alaska
      • Glacier Bay
      • Juneau
      • Petersburg Wrangel
      • British Columbia
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    • South Pacific Voyage 2004/2005 >
      • French Polynesia
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      • Kingdom of Tonga
      • New Zealand
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    • Passage - San Diego to Marquesas
    • Polynesia - Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti, Samoa
    • Melanesia - Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands >
      • Fiji
      • Vanuatu
      • Solomon Islands
    • Micronesia - Palau
    • Philippines
    • Malaysia >
      • Borneo - Sabah Province
      • Penang
      • Langkawi
      • Melacca Strait
      • Peninsular Malaysia
    • Singapore
    • Thailand
    • Indian Ocean >
      • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
      • Rodrigues
      • Mauritius
    • South Africa >
      • Game Parks
      • Richards Bay
      • Durban
      • Knysna
      • Hout Bay/Cape Town
    • Grenada
    • Panama >
      • Colon
      • Panama Canal Transit
    • Passage - Panama to Honolulu
    • Honolulu, Hawaii
    • Passage - Honolulu to Ventura
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    Welcome to OceansHorizon

​FOR SALE
s/v “Horizon”

1989 HANS ​CHRISTIAN 38 TRADITIONAL

Yanmar 66 hp Turbo Diesel         Telstar keel/skag rudder        Monitor windvane
​ Maxprop Propeller             Folding bowsprit                 Radar               Two GPS’s
Muir Cheetah windlass          Five anchors
100 gallons diesel          120 gallons water         Spectra 380 C Watermaker
8 Barient bronze self-tailing winches        165% Custom Asymmetrical cruising sail
Avon 310 Lite RIB dinghy with custom chocks

All new exterior and interior canvas
ICOM 802 SSB w/Pactor 2 Pro Modem           ICOM VHF Radio

Sony AM/FM Radio w/Bose speakers         Dickinson heater with 6-gallon day tank
Norcold refrigeration            Force 10 three-burner stove 
Fully screened ports/hatches             Two 75-Watt solar panels

2013 all new standing rigging with Hayne fittings and Loos stainless wire

Call Charlotte Schmidt Yacht Sales or e-mail at csyachtsales@cs.com 
 for complete list of vessel equipment & appointment
Boat located in Ventura, California


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This website was designed to share our adventures with everyone interested in long distance ocean voyaging under sail.

Joseph and Marci Paravia have traveled 70,000 nautical miles aboard "Horizon,"  our 38 ft. Hans Christian sailboat, and it's been our home for over seventeen years.  Our sailing adventures have taken us from our home port of San Diego, California throughout the Pacific Ocean as far north as Glacier Bay, Alaska and as far south as Tauranga, New Zealand.  We completed our circumnavigation and are currently in Ventura, California.  "Horizon" 
has anchored alone in distant and remote islands as well as amid the bustle of metropolitan centers like Auckland, Cape Town, Panama City, Singapore and Vancouver.   Check out our latest videos!

The photo above is "Horizon" under sail on the coast of the island of Vanua Levu, near Savusavu, Fiji. 
Taken by Tom & Vicky Jackson on board s/v "Sunstone


Last updated  June 3, 2018 ~ Ventura, California 
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Horizon:  The apparent intersection of the earth and sky; the range of one's knowledge, experience or interest.

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We were delighted to have this aerial photo taken of the anchorage at Direction Island in Cocos (Keeling) in the Indian Ocean.  "Horizon" is the boat anchored furthest on the right;  we were in 30 feet of crystal clear water with turtles, dolphins and black-tip reef sharks swimming beneath our hull.


Photos of our Voyage Around the World from San Diego, through French Polynesia, American Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Palau, the Philippines, Malaysia, across the Indian Ocean, around South Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea can be viewed in our Circumnavigation Gallery.   We've also added a map illustrating our route!

Photos of our first South Pacific voyage from San Diego to French Polynesia, the Southern Cook Islands, the Kingdom of Tonga, New Zealand and back can be viewed in the South Pacific Voyage 2004/2005 gallery.   

Photos of our North Pacific voyage from San Diego, California to the Hawaiian Islands to Southeast Alaska and British Columbia can be seen by visiting the North Pacific Voyage 2002/2003 gallery.

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One of the greatest benefits of cruising are sharing our adventures with our family and friends, many of whom have visited "Horizon."  Feel free to view our ever-growing photo gallery.

When we are cruising, we maintain a log of our daily activities we pulled together highlights and snippets of those logs for the Ship's Journal for our North and First South Pacific voyages.  We hope to provide a glimpse of what it's like to be traveling across the seas and distant archipelagos.  We have just updated the Journal to include a more detailed account of our adventures including more "strongly held" opinions than indicated in the "Where Are We Now?" page.

Marci has enjoyed some success in publishing articles about our adventures, as well as on more mundane maintenance topics, and copies of those articles are posted in Publications.

For more information about "Horizon,"  please see "About the Yacht," including the less-glamorous aspects of cruising - Keeping her Afloat"

We would love to hear your comments so feel free to contact us either by leaving a message  via e-mail on the Contact Us page.  We'll be happy to respond as soon as we reach our next Internet cafe.

We are adding video clips of our passages and destinations as we can make them available.

Until then, the crew of "Horizon"  thank you for visiting Oceans horizon and we wish you fair winds and safe travels.

 In Memoriam

Joseph and Marci on "Horizon" want to express our deepest condolences to the families of the crew of “Quest," Scott and Jean Adam, Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle. This is a horrible tragedy and we know our government will act accordingly.  We believe the freedom of the seas should be guaranteed by all governments, so mariners of all nationalities may sail where they wish without fear of hijacking, terrorists or assault.  We are saddened by this senseless act of violence and know retribution will never bring back the lives of those lost.
Joseph and Marci Paravia
On board “Horizon”  Lapulapu City, Mactan Island, Republic of the Philippines  February 23, 2011
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