As you read this, 30-year-old Alexia Barrier is scheduled to be completing her first full day of a solo circumnavigation aboard the 60-foot sailing yacht 4MyPlanet. Leading charter company Camper & Nicholsons International is a partner in the 4MyPlanet effort, which is intended to collect scientific data that will help with ocean research and preservation.
Barrier’s itinerary was set to begin yesterday in Monaco. Her first stop is scheduled to be Cape Town, South Africa, followed by Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and New York City, USA. The transatlantic from New York to Europe is expected to put Barrier back in Monaco in mid-June.
A series of educational conferences about ocean conservation is planned in conjunction with Barrier’s stops along the route. Additional conferences are planned for after her arrival in Monaco this summer.
Camper & Nicholsons’ support of the effort is the latest in a number of actions the company has taken to “go green.” In 2006, the firm adopted “carbon neutral” business practices. Not long after, Camper became one of the first agencies to offer charter clients the option of offsetting the carbon effects of yacht vacations in tandem with the CarbonNeutral Company. Most recently, the company has begun to pull back on the number of printed brochures and handouts that it distributes at boat shows, instead making such information available digitally and on demand to charter brokers and media.
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