Ben Edwards, Crew, from the middle of the Beaufort Sea. Joy of joys, the auto-helm’s stopped working. Dad (Steve Edwards, crew), thinks he knows why so we’ll hopefully be able to fix it in Tuk. In the meantime we’re back to…
Ben Edwards crew since Bristol. Aged 14. So we’re now in the middle of the Beaufort Sea. Point Barrow came and went, The Mother and Denis got off, Johan and The Father got on and we went on our merry…
Ben Edwards, crew, writing from the Chukchi Sea Hello. So, the news of the moment is we’ve completed the North East Passage. It’s taken us forty days lots of ice, five thousand two hundred miles, a polar bear, three unsuccessful…
Ben Edwards, crew whole expedition from the Chukchi Sea Hello, today I would like to start my blog with a quick word expressing my feelings. Ahem, WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We’re done! We’re done with the North East Passage! We’re half the world…
Ben Edwards crew whole expedition from the Chukchi Sea at 180 degrees Longitude! 26 Aug We’re over half way there! six o’clock this morning we passed one hundred and eighty degree mark and are now in the western hemisphere! WHOOOOOOOO!…
Ben Edwards, crew East Siberian Sea/ Chukchi Sea UTC 18:30 Aug 25 179 degrees. This is agony. We have less than sixty miles to until we’re half way round so of course everything seems to be going much much slower….
Ros Edwards crew NE passage “Twenty four hour sailing, is peculiarly gruelling. We do two, four hour, watches each day. Mine are 0400 to 0800 and 1600 to 2000. Doesn’t sound like a lot does it? Eight hours to sleep…
Ben Edwards crew whole expedition from East Siberian Sea 24th Aug Five thousand and sixty five miles. As of today thats how far I’ve come in sixty six days on board. Given our mode of transport it definitely feels as…
Constance Difede from the Eastern Siberian Sea Tuesday, 23 August 2016 Oh what a night!! Just when you might think we have seen it all, we have had another extraordinary. The celestial bodies have come together to reveal an out-of-this-world…
Ben Edwards 17.22 UTC from the East Siberian Sea Hello, so, you remember the blog I did a few days ago where I said I was really miserable? Well in response to that a whole set of people put comments…
