I am well on my way to concluding my world circumnavigation. Having crossed the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean with my sloop Spalax and the Pacific Ocean with my catamaran Spalax 2, I made landfall on the Indonesian island of Bali in November 2022.  Spalax 2 is now safely moored in Serangan Bay and will stay there until April 2023 when it will make its way through the Indonesian archipelago to Singapore and eventually to the Malaysian island of Langkawi.

In January 2024, when the north-east monsoon becomes firmly established, Spalax 2 will continue its blue-water odyssey across the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka, to the Maldives and finally to Djibouti, the gateway to the Red Sea.

March 2024 will see Spalax 2 meandering its way up the Red Sea to the Suez Canal and entering the Mediterranean Sea. Then comes the home stretch to Crete, Corfu and finally to the Slovenian port of Portorož where the globe-girdling voyages of Spalax and Spalax 2 will have come to a successful conclusion.

I am looking forward to meeting my friends and followers at the arrival ceremony in Portorož in the spring of 2024.

Captain Marjan Golobič