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As world leaders gather for the United Nations climate summit on Tuesday 23 September, around the globe ordinary individuals will be making their voice heard this Sunday for a Global Day of Climate …
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Trois fois président de la Polynésie française, Gaston Tong Sang, maire de Bora Bora depuis 1989, adresse ses meilleurs encouragements au Blue Planet Odyssey et assure à la flotte un chaleureux accueil polynésien à son …
We just received an unconfirmed report that Drina arrived in Tuktoyaktuk on Saturday, and are continuing from here to Alaska.
Les dernières photos de Marina Lanzarote montrent une nouvelle et jolie marina, prête à accueillir les bateaux de cette seconde édition de l’Atlantic Odysseyqui prendront le départ en novembre 2014. Gazel …
Aventura makes landfall at St John’s However much sailors love being at sea, landfall after a long passage is always sweet. When Jimmy woke me early in the morning of Friday 5th September, I …
Michael Thurston reports: We arrived Gjoa on Monday morning to find it was a long weekend for Labor Day Holiday so everything was closed. We did however manage to clear in to Canada and …
The historic center of Lisbon, a short bus or train ride away from the Marina Parque das Naçoes Saphir was the first boat to arrive at Marina Parque das Naçoes The Vasco …
An update on progress and some thoughts from Michael Thurston on Drina. Michael Thurston and Jimmy Cornell aboard Drina After being beset in ice at Port Leopold due to a wind contrary to the …
location 57′ 10N, 51′ 43W Today, 31 August, is exactly 3 months since Aventura left London bound for Arctic Canada and the Northwest Passage. Since then we have covered over 6000 miles and are now …
We just had news that on Friday the first sail boats managed to go through Bellot Strait westbound. The boats were Arctic Tern, Novara and Gjoa. Having overcome that major obstacle, they are now …
location: 60′ 39N, 51’03W Iceberg in front of Nuuk With Doina’s exception, all Aventura’s remaining crew disembarked in Nuuk, and flew home. We had just finished preparing Aventura for the long passage …
The Australian yacht ‘Drina’ first informed us of these shaggy ungulates via a boat email telling us to keep our eyes peeled for Musk ox and walrus on the rocks and tundra of Cuming …
We’ve been stuck in ice, walking among ivory animal bones, talking with Canadian Inuit, and lots more over this 2014 summer. We’ve seen Dundas Harbour and the great Polar bear (Ursus maritimus), Cuming inlet …
Michael Thurston on Drina reports from Port Leopold: The ice situation is almost unchanged. No yacht has gone through Bellot Strait as yet. We on Drina are still at Port Leopold, have not made our …
Based on a report received from Michael Thurston on Drina. One week since Aventura gave up the attempt to transit the NW Passage, the ice situation remains uncertain. We are now anchored at Port …
Narayan and Geronimo are flying their EO banners in Puerto Calero Marina. Anthea in Lanzarote. Rainer Moller and Carsten Arendt on Geronimo. The first three European Odyssey boats have arrived at Puerto …
There were already two boats anchored in the bay when we arrived – Manevaï and Lillian B. They were, like us, waiting for the ice to melt so the Northwest Passage might become navigable. …
Yesterday we finally escaped the grip of Lancaster Sound and reached the open sea. We are now sailing past Baffin Island with icebergs dotted about around us, but easy to …
Michael Thurston (left) and Jimmy Cornell aboard Drina in Dundas Harbour, Devon Island Despite the decisions by the captains of both Suilven and Aventura to turn back east and not attempt the Northwest …
Located at the western end of Lancaster Sound, Beechey Island is the site where the ill-fated expedition led by Sir John Franklin, spent their first Arctic winter in 1845-46. Two well-equipped ships, Terror and …
Perhaps the European Odyssey left Porto with a bit of the saudade, a nostalgic longing that characterizes the Portuguese fado music. Certainly, we all felt that we weren’t in Porto long enough — that …
Cuming Inlet is a deep fjord that penetrates some 11 miles into the heart of Devon Island. Its steep sides, rising to several hundreds of meters, are a silent reminder of the passage of …
Immediately when we jumped off our orange dinghy and into the frigid waters of Arctic Bay we were met with a sea of expectant faces who all clamored and hollered for our attention. All boys, …
The Inuit name for Arctic Bay, Ikpiarjuk, ‘the pocket’, describes this bay best, a deep indent protected on three sides by tall hills. Arctic Bay is located off Admiralty Inlet, on the northern tip of …
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