GENE MACHINE EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN WITH THE UTMOST CONFIDENCE
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“We spent the first summer with them in the Med,” continues Captain Gow. “Then the owner asked me for cruising suggestions. I put together a proposal to visit London followed by a month’s cruising in the northern latitudes. I was a bit ambitious; sometimes we were steaming all night to our next destination.”
Gow calls Norway the most underrated and most magical place you can take a superyacht. “We spent two weeks there covering every vein of every fjord. With a string of islands offshore, it is much like the Inside Passage to Alaska. The vast majority of our cruising was in flat, calm water.”
For the trip, Rothberg added two forward-facing sonars to Gene Machine’s equipment list and put WASSP sonar systems on the tenders. Gow equipped the yacht so that the family could continue to do all the watersports they enjoy in warm water. “We just went from nylon skins to wetsuits to dry suits,” he says. The family went paragliding above glaciers, watched polar bears, swam with whales, had barbecues on beaches, watched the Northern Lights and took in the midnight sun.
