Ben Edwards crew 20 August from the East Siberian Sea We’re through the Laptev Sea! We’ve passed the strait and are now in the East Siberian Sea, this morning we passed the midway mark between the island and the mainland…
N73 16 E139 07 pressure1009 air 2 water2 1 31 days 20.30UTC 19 Aug Well the first full day in a long time with no wind and no ice. Rhythm of life has returned to the boat. We pass each other like ships in the night, but…
Ben Edwards, crewmember, whole expedition, 14 years old. So, for my fiftieth blog I thought I’d say something that is possibly a little unexpected…. I am miserable. A combination of lack of space, physical inaction and endless monotony means that at…
N73 21 E130 50 pressure 110 air 0, water 5, 12 knot winds Genoa up 18 Aug 19.30 UTC 0400 local time 19th Aug Laptev Sea Well I came up on watch this morning at 0800. ice, ice and more b****t ice. I finished my watch and…
Ben Edwards crew, 18 Aug We’re still running into ice, aaaagggghhhh! We’ve had patches of clear water just large enough that you can’t see the other side, just large enough that you start to think maybe we’ve seen the last…
N74 11 E123 00, pressure 1004, water temp 0.22, air 0C Odd day, fog and small stretches of ice all day. Its amazing, the ladies come up on deck, “ooooh isn’t it wonderful, ooooh look at the sunset, look at the sunrise. Helming is…
Ben Edwards, crew Laptev Sea 19.30 UTC 17 Aug So, we’re making good progress. Yesterday we passed the four thousand mile mark. If that was in a straight line it would mean we were a third of the way round,…
N74 12 E115 01 pressure 1010 water 0.1c air 2c Well what a 24 hours. We have done more mileage in this time than in two weeks. We left our storm cove and headed off. Past the point we nearly grounded the other night,…
Ben Edwards crew member 14 years old. So, after I wrote to you last we turned around from our endeavour to get through the ice and made our way to a place to anchor that was relatively sheltered. The problem…
N 76 29.0 E 112 53.1 Pressure 1014 water temp -0.1 outside temp 0 Well as predicted, we had our storm. It doesn’t matter where you are in the World, in a tent, or a sail boat, it can be scary, as you are…
