Photo Credit: Gina Waggott Bill Laverty and the team travelled down from Dublin to Kilrush to undertake the rigging work on ‘Northabout’ in Kilrush the week commencing 23rd March 2015. They worked tireless and battled against time, the weather and…

Photo Credit: James Hale As a requirement for the Insurance for Northabout we had a survey carried out and this identified a number of work items that would need to be done. Some of these items would have been part…

Photo Credit: James Hale This week they are back on the 14th April 2015 to finish the elements of the rigging that needed completing and also to liaise regarding arranging some rigging spares for ‘Northabout’ as in the Arctic Ocean….

Photo Credit: Gina Waggott The first of these jobs to get done was the rigging. Jarlath Cunnane who we were buying ‘Northabout’ from contacted Masts & Rigging, Ireland on our behalf regarding replacing the standing rigging, as Jarlath was able…

Photo Credit: James Hale As a requirement for the insurance for the high latitude element of the expedition we needed to have an insurance survey carried out on ‘Northabout’. We arranged for this to go ahead and the report back…

Photo Credit: Peter Prokosch http://www.grida.no/photolib/detail/port-of-murmansk-russia_a0d4 From all those knock backs, one after another we now had two quotes to look at and compare. We had to pinch ourselves to check that we weren’t dreaming and this was real. Of the two…

One of the yachts that were sailing in the North West Passage in 2014 was set to sail the North East Passage until they were unable to secure a Russian Permit. We found out who they were insured with and…

From here we started working on the requirements by the Russian Authorities, which included the yacht to have insurance. This was quite an involved process. As a starting point we contacted a number of yacht insurance companies from an internet…