Jennifer Greer perplexed some of the cruisers she met in Alaska’s Glacier Bay. They expected the once-in-a-lifetime scenery, but not the first-in-their-lifetime encounter with her.
“People just aren’t used to seeing a female with nobody else on the boat, other than a cat,” says Greer, who was exploring the region aboard her Nordhavn 40, Symphony. “They’re like, ‘What do you mean you’re single-handing the boat?’ That’s not their experience. They always go with a spouse or a friend.”
Greer, with Boo by her side, is among an increasing number of owner-operator women who are heading off on big adventures aboard Nordhavns. Of course, women have always cruised as part of a couple on Nordhavn’s go-anywhere boats, but more recently, single females are in command of everything from the budgets to the thrusters.
In Greer’s case, the choice to own the boat solo on her own—and attempting to cruise it across the Pacific Ocean—was a decision that followed her husband’s death from cancer in 2013.
