Category: Leg3NWpassage

FEET ON DRY LAND!! IN UPERNAVIK We arrived in Upernavik and celebrated, Johan fished out some glacier ice for celebratory drinks! Upernavik, Greenland 15 September 2016

APPROACHING UPERNAVIK The arrival into Upernavik with huge icebergs and islands. Upernavik, Greenland 15 September 2016 10:34 UTC

British led expedition. Irish boat 'Northabout' The first British boat to do a circumnavigation of The North Pole anti-clockwise in one season Nikolay Litau is the first Skipper in the world to complete both Passages twice Barbara Fitzpatrick is the...

PRESS RELEASE 19.18 UTC on 12th September The Polar Ocean Challenge successfully completed their quest to sail the North East Passage and North West Passage in one season.  The North West Passage was completed in an astonishing 14 days due...

Sailing east through Lancaster Sound met with lumps of ice the size of cars. Day watch and night watch with torches on the bow. Winter sunset over Baffin Island; feels like winter is really setting in here. Note the wave splash at...

The ice charts are showing that we are going to have difficulty getting round the top of our channel into Lancaster Sound and the ice is moving towards the coast so it is getting harder.  A section of the ice...

The Bellot Strait, Nunavut, Canada. A renowned 'choke point' for impassable sea ice when non icebreaking (open water) vessels seek/ have sought a route through the 'North West Passage' during the summer 'melt months'. No sea ice to be seen....

A couple of hours later I saw our first ice since leaving Barrow.  This was at about 69d 30m North and 99d West and exactly where yesterday’s ice charts said we might see a little ice.  The pictures are with...

Steve Edwards, crew filmed what was happening on the boat in between his watches

We knew Polar Bound was in the area and we came across him this morning.  A very nice chat, useful information about the ice ahead and an invitation to meet him in Cambridge Bay which we sadly had to decline...