17 degrees C !! Anchored and bouncing round like a cork
Staying at Anchor for another night behing Ostroc Severnyy Air 9C water 5C 76 53N 112 E 30 knot winds from SW 15.40 UTC 22.40 local time Well, as predicted from the Grib files, winds slowly increased throughout last night to 35 and…
We have still to get round Piotr-Severnyy but we all felt that Ostrov Andreya was the critical point
Anchored at 76deg 32min N 112deg 01min E behind Severnyi Island to see out a storm 10:00 UTC 14 Aug This photo is the moment when we got through the ice yesterday approaching Ostrov Andreya. 76 deg 45min N 110deg 43min…
Running out of superlatives, collective excitement and running for shelter
13 Aug 22.00 UTC (local time 14 Aug 0500) N76 33 E112 01 Anchored in an estuary, Outside temp 12 degrees and forecast 14 later – Honest !! Water temp 3.8 with 40 knot winds forecast with gusts of 50 Well running out…
Free! Freedom! Born to be Free!
August 13, 2016 17.28 UTC (00.28 14 Aug local time) 76.65 112.09 Free! Freedom! Born to be Free! Martin Luther King … Marion Anderson … Richie Havens … Nelson Mandela … Joan Baez … Bob Dylan …Janyce Joplin… Bruce Springsteen……
We must have tried every single option three times. Just 3 miles, but it could have been 300 miles
Aug 12 19:30 UTC (local time 02:30 Aug 13) At present moored alongside a ‘Stamukha’ sounding like the drink Sambucca ! N 76 43.2 E110 07.0 Well 10 mins after sending last nights blog, it tempted fate, the ice started to…
We found a cozy little ice natural harbour, almost exactly the same size as Northabout.
Ben Edwards, crewmember whole expedition Laptev Sea 12 Aug So, we’re tied to some ice again. After I wrote to you last we found that we couldn’t get through the ice to the east and we had to wait around…
Stamukha
UTC 11:00, Which is by the way at the moment is 18:00 local time. A Stamukha is an iceberg that is touching the bottom. We had to turn round from the ice by the coast last night and find somewhere…