Ben Edwards Saturday evening 30 July ICE! We came across ice today! Or at least so I’m told, I was in bed. It was after my watch, about eleven thirty, as far as I know we were just sailing along…
Ben Edwards morning of 30 July south Kara Sea I have a cold. It’s my fault of course. Yesterday on my first half hour of the horrible watch I had no hat and had my hood pulled back so that…
SAT 30TH July. 12 midday N76 19, E090 27 Pressure 999 water temp 5.4 outside temp 3 cloud 8/8 Drizzle. batt 13.2 Making steady progress East. We had the latest ice charts for the Vilkitskogo straight. Still blocked and the Laptev still blocked, but big changes…
Friday afternoon 29th July. N76 20 E083 28 Pressure 998 water temp 4 outside temp 5 cloud 6/8 sea sate 3 winds 15 knots. Making steady progress east. I always love it when we click over degree of longitude. Of course, they are pretty close together…
Thursday 28th jULY N76 44, E078 44 Pressure 1001 water temp 3 outside temp 2 cloud 8/8 sea state 3 winds 15 knots. full main and full stay sail.. tacking north east Last couple of days have been interesting. Great thing about modern weather charts, you can predict…
Ben Edwards July 28 aged 14 crewmember whole expedition Hello, sorry about “no blog 31”. I couldn’t resist. The last day has been lost in a gale. Anyway. Yesterday we started sailing south east with a good wind and no particular…
“There is no blog 31″…. see Blog 32
Late evening wednesday 27 July writing this log late. n 77 09 e073 22 beaufort force 6/7 main 3 reefs, stay sail furled 50% couple people off weather again, sailing thrilling, choppy seas, but dangerous to do anything on deck or…
