New Era's round-the-world voyage On 24 December 1998, Captain Liu Ning-sheng, navigational map unfurled, ordered the New Era to set sail. Their path led them from Kaohsiung across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean, through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea, across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Panama Canal, and finally across the Pacific Ocean and back to Taiwan.
一九九八年十二月二十四日，船長劉寧生攤開航海圖，一聲號令下，「跨世紀」號帆船自高雄啟航出發，一路行經南中國海、印度洋，接著由紅海穿越蘇伊士運河進入地中海，然後橫越大西洋，穿越巴拿馬運河，最後投入太平洋的懷抱，回到台灣。