Distance Pennant
Program
Total Nordhavn Boats: 630
Total Nordhavn Mileage: 9,167,741
Nordhavn’s popular Distance Pennant Program was created to recognize the many Nordhavn owners and their great accomplishments of traveling the world’s oceans and enjoying the adventures of a lifetime. It is interesting to note that the average miles traveled is a little under half of a circumnavigation for each registered owner. Our goal is to reach 100 percent registration of all Nordhavns built and enter all of the miles traveled by previous owners.
If you have any questions regarding pennants or the Distance Pennant Program, please contact sue.ferrari@nordhavn.com.
From the earliest days of the age of sail up to the present time, the history of flags and the history of the sea have been intertwined. From at least the early 19th century, it has been the custom of ships returning from a long overseas deployment to fly an extra long commission pennant made up of whatever bunting could be assembled.
In the Royal Navy, this is known as the “paying off pennant” because a ship used to be taken out of commission and its crew “paid off” at the end of each cruise. In the United States Navy, it is called the homeward-bound pennant. Although not officially sanctioned by regulations, the Navy has issued guidelines for the use of this pennant in NTP-13(B), Flags, Pennants and Customs.
It is really very simple. Just click here to register and then submit your contact information in the required fields and list your trips with full details about your travels –including the number of miles covered.
In return, not only will your accomplishments be listed for all who visit this website to be impressed by, you will receive a complimentary Nordhavn Distance Pennant. Let the world know your Nordhavn is more than just a great-looking vessel. You and your Nordhavn have done what others dare not.
The first level is 2,500 miles. Subsequent pennants will be issued in additional 5,000 nm increments. Each will be a different color. No matter how the miles were accrued: one long trip, 50 short cruises or even if you have owned multiple Nordhavns, it’s the total miles accumulated that we are interested in.
PLEASE NOTE: Once you enter your miles, the database will automatically alert us to the mileage pennant earned. Pennants should not be awarded prior to miles being logged. If you have problems logging your miles, please contact dharlow949@gmail.com. If you have a specific address where you would like the pennant to be sent, please e-mail sue.ferrari@nordhavn.com.
In addition to earning mileage pennants, owners can obtain special pennants:
Circumnavigator pennant: any owner who has circumnavigated the world will be awarded a Circumnavigator pennant. Please notify us if you have achieved a circumnavigation.
Extreme Latitudes pennant: anyone who has traveled above 66° North or below 50° South. Please notify us if you qualify for an Extreme Latitudes pennant and include a snapshot of your location
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| Name | Carol & John Salazar |
| Boat Name | Moondance |
| Nordhavn Model | N35CP |
| Hull Number | 3520 |
| Boat Year | 2004 |
| Total Nautical Miles Traveled | 12,520 |
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| Voyage Details | 11-25-22 Moondance began the journey that has not stopped and is ongoing as I type this in May of 2024. We purchased her in Charleston SC and hired a training and delivery captain to get us from Charleston to Daytona Beach in 4 days. Our first adventure began and started our YouTube channel ( MV Moondance). Total miles: 350. Moondance received a lot of loving care with upgrades to her electronics and a stern thruster. Her next trek was to Key Largo. Plenty of stops along the way and plenty of time to stop and smell the seaweed, we cruised the inside and outside passage and gained experience that would take us into the years to come. Key Largo was our second YouTube video. Total miles: 370. We arrived 4-14-23. This was as far south as we had time for. Had to head back north to be out of Florida for hurricane season. We got a late start because we arrived in the Florida Keys late in the season so we wanted to see how far north we could get before the weather got cold. We pushed for Maine but got as far as Salem, MA. ( Our next YouTube video: Moondance in Salem). We stayed at a few familiar marinas as we cruised north but after Charleston, SC, it was all new. We did reach Salem 8-30-23. Total miles: 1850. As little as a week later, we turned around and headed south. We had a hurricane chase us into Connecticut and had to hold up until the weather cleared. We now knew the journey ahead because we'd just come this way. This time we decided to work with anchorages and mooring balls over marina slips. We also skipped over places that were not of interest and traded them for interesting places. This time we wanted to go as far south as Key West... and we did! The journey was the same 1850 miles except add 100 for Key West from Key Largo. We arrived 1-11-24 in Key West but an important stop along the way was in Daytona Beach where Moondance was fitted for a stabilizer. A DMS stabilizer. Yet another YouTube video was published and we are now a costal pilot with stabilization! Total miles to Key West: 1950. A total of 4520 miles since purchasing Moondance on 11-15-22. The journey continues as we head north again leaving Key West (reluctantly). We planned to stay for a week. We stayed for 6 weeks instead. Loved it and can't wait to return. We left Key West 2-20-24 with a destination in mind of Bar Harbor, ME. We are currently in Norfolk, VA and at 1830 miles from Key West. We hope to make Bar Harbor in August 2024. We will keep this log updated as much as we can. Total miles to date: 6350 miles from 11-15-22 to 5-22-24.
UPDATE 6-26-25 Current location: Solomons Island, Chesapeake Bay Maryland. ________________________________________________________________ We continued to Bar Harbor Maine cruising through the Chesapeake Bay stopping at all the normal ports, Solomons, St. Michele's, Chesapeake City. We rounded Cape May and continued on the outside passing New York, Martha's Vineyard and after crossing the length of Long Island Sound, we enter Cape Cod Bay. We have posted 2 of 3 videos on our YouTube Channel on our travels in these New England states. We spent a lot of time along our journey staying long stop overs Plymouth, Boston, Salem to name a few. After passing Portsmouth we enter the waters of Maine stopping in Portland Maine. The waters of the coast become rough and we wait for weather window more often before throwing lines. We take our time exploring all the islands in Maine leading up to Bar Harbor. But first we discover Harpswell Maine. Staying for a month at Dolphin Marina feasting on lobster and blueberry muffins, we continue on through Boothbay, Vinalhaven and finally reaching Bar Harbor September 2, 2024 racking on another 1020 miles adding to the 6350 in Norfolk Va. totaling 7370 miles before turning south. Southward, our southern most destination is The Dry Tortugas. About 57 miles from Key West and where we spend most time at a mooring ball, we venture into an anchorage in Garden Key. Spent two weeks at anchor enjoying the clearest water and mammoth groupers swimming around our boat. We traveled this southern most point adding 2325 miles to 7370 totaling 9695 miles traveled before turning north. North to the Chesapeake Bay which is where we are at the time of this posting. Traveling over the same old grounds that we found...previously. We decided to slow down the travel part and stay at anchor for weeks at a time in the Chesapeake Bay area. This adds 1425 on our return from The dry Tortugas to the Chesapeake Bay bringing the grand total miles 11,120 miles.
Update 1-03-2026 - Current location: Daytona Beach Florida. ________________________________________________________________ From Norfolk VA., we navigated the Chesapeake Bay in a clockwise motion to explore all the many anchorages and fishing areas. These included Solomons MD., Rose Haven MD., Annapolis MD., Rivera Beach MD., Baltimore MD., Chesapeake City on the Delaware Canal (a must doo), Georgetown, Rock Hall, St Michaels, and a rare place called Tangier Island which is the one sinking and the locals are a un9ique community that amounted to about 300 people at the time we visited. A must see place that will disappear in not to distance future. This amounted to 600 miles that brought us back to Norfolk VA before heading south. The weather was cold and we stayed a little longer than planned and found ourselves running from freezing weather. You know you are too far north in the winter when the docks are freezing and water is shut down. So we high tailed it south to warmer weather. Heading south , we covered a lot of the same marinas and anchorages; Coinjock, Alligator River, Belhaven NC, Beaufort NC, Georgetown SC, Charleston SC, and after a Christmas in our home port of St Augustine FL, we are currently at our home maintenance port in Daytona Beach FL. This trip added 800 miles to the 600 miles in the Chesapeake Bay which put 1400 miles on our accumulated 11,120. We are now at a total of 12,520 miles. Our current pennant is 5000 miles and is begging to fray. We could use a new one. Plenty more miles to go and so little time.
If you would like to follow our journey, visit our web site: https://mvmoondance.com/ or our videos on YouTube mvmoondance: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGSMOZBp8CsnTJ99xuJfcMQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGSMOZBp8CsnTJ99xuJfcMQ We now have an active AIS and can found on https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:8721287/mmsi:368336350/imo:0/vessel:MOONDANCE Search for MMSI# 368336350
Cheers, Carol & John (Pics and videos are on our web site and a link to our YouTube channel to ride along on our journey) MV Moondance N3520
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