So. Yesterday we did indeed get the ice maps we wanted and yes, they did say a lot that was good. We can now get through the Laptev sea. Over the passed week enough ice has either melted or shifted…
Ben Edwards, anchored at Ostrov Pilota Makhotkino Since being anchored we now have anchor watch duties. The principle is that while you’re at anchor there is always the risk of the anchor coming unstuck from the seabed, not only that but here…
Barbara Fitzpatrick 2 Aug 2016, crew. From anchored in the Nordenshel’da Archipelago It’s Tuesday afternoon and we have been at anchor since Sunday morning in a beautiful bay off the coast of Siberia. We have had blue skies and the sun…
Ros Edwards Crew member leg 2 Mother of Ben Edwards who is also crew for whole expedition (age 14)) Anchored of Ostrov Pilota Makhotkina 2 Aug This will be our third day at anchor in a beautiful isolated island, tucked deep…
Ben Edwards from anchored in the Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea Yesterday was, I thought, very nice. It was about ten degrees outside, a very pleasant temperature for us at the moment. We…
Ben Edwards 31 July Nordenshel’da Archipelago Hello, so, news of the moment is that we’re anchored. Today at seven o’clock exactly we sailed into a sheltered bay in the middle of an archipelago just west of a passage made up of…
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…
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
