In June of 2019, skipper David Zaharik and his wife Scarlet, departed Tréguier sailed into the English Channel to visit Jersey and Guernsey for an initial shakedown and then rounded the west coast of France sailing south across the Bay of Biscay to Spain, down the west coast of Portugal, around southern Spain to Gibraltar. From Gibraltar, in November 2019, they sailed to Lanzarote Canary Islands from where they departed to cross the Atlantic. 18.5 days later they cruised into Jolly Harbour, Antigua. In January 2020 they began island hopping;  Barbuda, St Barts, Sint Maarten, Saint Martin, St Thomas, Fajardo Puerto Rico for Mathew Town, Bahamas. While cruising north through the Bahamas news of a pandemic had David and Scarlet make haste to mainland USA before the boarders closed. They made it by three days and arranged to have Beyond the Blue complete her voyage to Vancouver on the top of a freighter arriving in May 2020. Immediately suggestions and hints were dropped that perhaps Beyond the Blue could continue her adventures by entering the Vic-Maui 2022.