Saturday evening 6th August, Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea Same Place, same time. Well the forecast was right, wind calmed and changed direction. Dennis’s Birthday started off at 9 am. Bunting up, card signed,…
Ben Edwards, anchored Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea Written at 0100, in my ‘evening’ I have discovered that I have managed to completely reverse my body clock. We’ve got the same light level…
Constance Difede, anchored in the Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea 5 August 2016 Winter arrived. It has been four days since anyone has ventured beyond the cockpit to crush a can or add…
Friday evening 5 August Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea So lots going on, it’s amazing how you can make yourself busy out of nothing. Same place, same time. Ros changed the Anchor…
Translated from Russian audio. During the North East Passage. Anchored at Ostrov Pilota Makhotkina 5 August 2016 Этот маршрут я уже прошел в 1998 1999 годах. Яхта Апостол Андрей и я первыми кто это сделал в истории яхтинга I’ve already…
Thursday evening 4th August, Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea Every night we stay here, the night seems to get longer. Partly because everyone is going to bed earlier. That is probably because the…
Constance Difede, crew, from anchored in Ostrov Pilota Makhotkino After fourteen days the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. It is now the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea. Two down, two to go before the Bering Strait. As…
Same place, same time. one day on 3 Aug One of my heroes is Bill Tillman, A great climber and sailer. He wrote, one of the biggest dangers in base camp was ‘bed sores’. During the night the wind changed…
Ben Edwards from anchored in Nordenshel’da Archipelago, south Kara Sea Hello again. So, as I said earlier we did indeed gain more knowledge today of the ice and that that knowledge was that the ice had closed over the passage with…
