Ben Edwards, crew 03.30 UTC 9th Sept Queen Maud Gulf One word, grrrrrrrrr. You know I told you about my ankle yesterday? And how I was restarting the physio? Well. I did that, in fact, I rather overdid it. I have…
Steve Edwards, crew, from Coronation Gulf 7 Sept Johan has written a book on knots, sadly in Norwegian. It looks very good and we are pressing him to have it translated into English. Knowing about the book several crew members…
Steve Edwards, crew, Coronation Gulf 0300 UTC 8 Sept This sunrise was some 40 minutes after the last of the island pictures and in the end the sun never did appear in the sky and was always hidden behind the…
Steve Edwards, crew Coronation Gulf, 03.00 UTC 8 Sept As a young boy scout I was told to always trust my compass when navigating. That advice is good as long as you are in the UK, however in the North…
Ben Edwards, crew from the Coronation Gulf You remember how earlier on this leg we were consistently doing over eight knots? Well that situation has changed somewhat. The wind came round onto our bow a while ago and we started…
Ben Edwards, UTC 16.30 7 Sept Coronation Gulf We’ve slowed down a little, that’s about it.
Ben Edwards, crew. UTC 6 Sept We’re now in the North West Passage proper. We’re further east than the outermost islands of the massive archipelago that is northern Canada. We are also two thirds of the way round the world….
Ben Edwards, crew, whole expedition, Beaufort Sea 5th Sept So we left Tuk yesterday. As usual we left during my watch. It’s extraordinary, the only time we’ve left a place not on my watch was when we left the stamukha…
Ben Edwards, writing in the early hours of Sept 3rd local time. About Sept 2nd in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada. UTC 0700 Sept 3rd We’re in Tuk! It’s amazing! Forty percent of the land is small lakes and the village is built…
Ben Edwards, crew Sept 2 UTC 0600 boat time 22.00 Sept 1. Beaufort Sea We get to Tuktoyaktak ‘tomorrow’. I’m really looking forward to that. And we get to get off the boat, if there’s a food place maybe have dinner off…
