Late evening wednesday 27 July writing this log late.
n 77 09 e073 22
beaufort force 6/7
main 3 reefs, stay sail furled 50%
couple people off weather again, sailing thrilling, choppy seas, but dangerous to do anything on deck or inside. Auto pilot not working very well in these high seas, so all taking it in turns to helm.
safest place is in the bunk.
two days of this now, but making some progress east, we think we might go into the middle of the depression, so calmer maybe tomorrow. we are then heading for an island for shelter and wait for new ice charts. re group. sort out water maker. a problem but probably the low temp of water. 4 degrees.
8 degrees inside the saloon. keel leaking a little. Ginger biscuits good. luckily, I’m not suffering, and sleeping through the inside of a washing machine. Nikolai and Dennis did well today to cover for people. clever bringing some Russians. Man they are hard, they think this is like a summer holiday !!!
Still not toasted getting into the Kara sea. Off to the pub.
David
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Avidly watching your progress as you undertake this very exciting venture. The Arctic is a truly dynamic region.
I’ve been monitoring the regularly updated positions of ‘Northabout’, and via ‘nullschool’ the depression running to your southeast. I feared today might ‘chop up’ a bit in that region of the Kara.
As a fellow sailor of modest experience I wish you all well and safe throughout your journey.
I cannot help but try to visualise and attempt to imagine the windchill and sea conditions in the strange low light of the Arctic ‘day’.
It must be a tremendously exciting challenge for you all to face.
Best regards.
Thankyou so much for your interest, we hope that we are managing to update what we are doing often enough, we haven’t got much bandwidth, and then there is the sometimes ‘vertical’ boat! But it makes it all worthwhile when we know that the info; blogs, images we do get off the boat are read. Hope to hear from you again!