by Gill Johnson | Sep 13, 2016 | Polar Ocean Challenge News |
Yesterday (Monday 12th Sept) the Polar Ocean Challenge successfully completed their quest to sail the North East Passage and North West Passage in one season. The North West Passage was completed in an astonishing 14 days due to the fact that it was almost totally ice...
by Gill Johnson | Sep 13, 2016 | Ben's Blog |
The North West Passage is over! We’ve done it! The trip isn’t over yet but the difficult part is. While we aren’t done with the trip yet it does put quite a few records to our names. Nikolai’s the first skipper to do both passages twice, David and I are the first...
by Gill Johnson | Sep 11, 2016 | Ben's Blog |
We’re through the Bellot Strait! It’s an almost completely straight passage between two islands lasting eighteen miles and cutting a huge section off the journey. It almost always has ice in it but as we went through today it was completely clear. It’s odd,...
by Gill Johnson | Sep 6, 2016 | Ben's Blog |
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. We reached one twenty degrees late yesterday night and are...
by Gill Johnson | Sep 5, 2016 | Ben's Blog |
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 for the last time. I assume there must be some kind of conspiracy against me, possibly the...
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