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……
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…
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…
Thurs 11th August. Day 23 20:00 UTC N76 43 . 2 E 109 50.6 pressure 988 wind from the south 10/15 knots sea temp -0.3 outside temp 7 Depth 8 m Well what a day, still only sailed 12 hours but a real tonic for everyone ….
Anchored at Volodarskiy Island. N77 18 .062 E107 07 .574 8/8. raining. Getting darker each night water temp 1.27 outside temp 2 A very mixed day of ups and downs, probably better described as down, ups and down ! First off, our make shift mooring…
near MYS (Cape) Chelyuskin,Vilkitsky Strait, Laptev Sea Anchored for night by shore against some fast ice) 21:38 UTC 9 Aug A mixed bag of emotions today. sailing in strong winds through the night up the coast. Its amazing that just 10…
N76 31, E098 32 Pressure 1004 wind 15/20k NW water temp 3.5 outside temp 2 8/8 foggy Well, two good bits of news today. One is our permit came through from Vladivostock to be able to sail directly to Point Barrow. This is good news…
7 August Same place, same time Winds calm and the first sun for a week. exactly a week since we arrived. The end of a mixed day…. First a Walrus swimming around the boat, while Babs was singing happy birthday to…
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,…
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…
