Moored in Tuktoyaktuk, Beaufort Sea Well, what a great day. Firstly, it was blowing 35 knots and we were snug as a bug on a pontoon. Halyards snapping on the mast and lovely to hear from a warm sleeping bag…
Ben Edwards, writing in the early hours of Sept 3rd local time. About Sept 2nd in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada. UTC 0700 Sept 3rd We’re in Tuk! It’s amazing! Forty percent of the land is small lakes and the village is built…
Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, Friday evening 2 September day 46 since Murmansk, N69.41 132.98 Today we slowly made our way to Tuk. Weather was kind to us everyone excited as we got closer. We had to get in before our fuel man went…
N70 21 W137 50 pressure 1023 water 7.9C Air 5C 0830 UTC 2 Sept boat time 23.30 1st Sept Well as Lou Reid sang, a perfect day. Started off in the states, dull and grey. But the chop had died down from the night before,…
Ben Edwards, crew Sept 2 UTC 0600 boat time 22.00 Sept 1. Beaufort Sea We get to Tuktoyaktak ‘tomorrow’. I’m really looking forward to that. And we get to get off the boat, if there’s a food place maybe have dinner off…
N70 59.1 W143 58.7 Pressure 1026 water 4C air 2C 07.00 UTC 1st Sept Ground hog day. Wind smack on the nose, so we took the sails down and trying to motor in a choppy sea. Not great, but slowly getting there. The wind should…
Ben Edwards, Crew, from the middle of the Beaufort Sea. Joy of joys, the auto-helm’s stopped working. Dad (Steve Edwards, crew), thinks he knows why so we’ll hopefully be able to fix it in Tuk. In the meantime we’re back to…
