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For any of you who are watching us on the AIS I wish to reassure you that we have not gone insane, or least not by that much….

Ben Edwards 26 July-27 July on watch, nightime, Barents Sea For any of you who are watching us on the AIS I wish to reassure you that we have not gone insane, or least not by that much…. Yes, we…

20-26 July Departing Murmansk into the The Barents Sea

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Leaving Murmansk 20 July 20 July Beautiful sea, warm, no wind under motor until the afternoon Ben on watch. It's getting colder 21 July Sailing the Barents Sea 24 July DOLPHINS play round the boat :-) Barents Sea 25 July...

For lunch we had two sails up. As a result we were tipped over onto our side, funnily enough I didn’t try cook anything extravagant for lunch

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Ben Edwards crew whole expedition, middle of Barents Sea Update 26 July UTC 19.00 Local time 22.00 Hello. Onboard we have two rotas, one for cooking and one for washing up. Each person does one day of each every week….

A long tack north, and then tacked east again. There is No hurry

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0800 Tues 26th Day 7 N77 24 E064 33 Pressure 1004 Wind NE 20 knots cloud 8/8 full Genoa out, and one reef in main. Choppy sea, taking four hour tacks. These sea conditions make it hard to sleep, cook or relax. We are considering many elements…

During our brief sailing period I was awoken by an odd sensation. It didn’t feel like the boat was moving. We were moving of course, just very slowly.

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Ben Edwards, crew whole expedition Hello. Yesterday The Mother promised me that today there would be wind and that we’d be sailing again. Fat chance. By the time I was on my morning watch we were still motoring and by…

Our companions are the sea birds and dolphins. We are the strangers visiting their world in a place without time.

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Constance Difede, Crew, from the Barents Sea Waypoint 458 – Life by the numbers After nearly 5 days, we are located approximately at 72N 62E within 93NM of our waypoint. It is an odd sensation to realise over these days our course will…

Going slowly under sail deliberately 2/3 knots. And doing some maintenance today.

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0700 UTC 25th JULY, 2016 N76 24, E059 40 pressure 1011 water temp 6.1 air temp 7 Sky 7/8th Grey and dull, Batt 13.9 , bearning 026 distance since yesterday, 140nm Going slowly under sail deliberately 2/3 knots. And doing some maintenance today. Weather charts show…

Expedition cuppa making ‘Tea or Coffee?’ Or is it that simple…?

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David Hempleman Adams, expedition leader, 24 July, middle of the Barents Sea So you need some imagination for todays blog. I have spent hundreds of days skiing to different parts of the World, with Rune Gjeldnes, my Norwegian partner in…

The mist receded and we began to see mountains covered with snow and glaciers. They look massive from thirty miles away

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Ben Edwards July 25 from the Barents Sea East of Novaya Zemlya, crewmember for whole expedition, aged 14 Hello. Yesterday The Mother promised me that today there would be wind and that we’d be sailing again. Fat chance. By the time…

24 hour daylight means there’s no measure for time passing. You get up at 12 midnight and go to the toilet and it’s exactly the same as 12 noon.

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Ben Edwards, crew member, whole expedition, 24 July from the Barents Sea Hi again. So, I have no idea how long it is science we left Murmansk. I think I had a bit of an idea yesterday, if so I’ve forgotten…

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