Sail Green: Rally with a Cause
Though they’re sailing for enjoyment and to see the world, participants in the Blue Planet Odyssey will also lend a hand to a range of scientific and educational endeavors.
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Though they’re sailing for enjoyment and to see the world, participants in the Blue Planet Odyssey will also lend a hand to a range of scientific and educational endeavors.
Crews are rushing to finalize preparations for Jimmy Cornell’s Blue Planet Odyssey departure on Saturday, January 10, 2015.
With ice still blocking the way, the crew of Aventura makes the difficult decision to abandon their plans of a Northwest Passage transit.
The crew of Aventura pass the time in the Arctic while waiting for the ice to open up in the Northwest Passage.
Why take the Panama Canal to the Pacific when the Northwest Passage would do just as well?
We are happy to be in this protected bay … and wait.
When I went to say goodbye to Anders, I expressed my astonishement at how simple it had all been. I also asked if there is much crime given the ease of obtaining a gun. ‘None to speak of. Greenland must be one of the safest places in the world.’
In preparation for the transit of the Northwest Passage, I have been in contact with sailors who have accomplished a transit in recent years, have attended several lectures on the subject, have read all relevant material that I could find, and have also consulted people who have worked in that area.
Orkney fishermen waving at us as we pass them, the harbour master of Greenland’s main commercial port is waiting until close to midnight to welcome a yacht? Is the world changing, or is it just that in such remote places people still behave as everyone used to … once upon a time.
Although we were still some distance from the coast, we hoisted the Greenland courtesy flag, whose symbolic sun rising over a white horizon reflects the spectacle I had just witnessed.
Soon we were dodging small bits of ice, then larger ones, and finally mini-icebergs the size of Aventura.
Just before 11 o’clock local time, the sun came out, the mist cleared and almost exactly ten days after our departure from Stromness in the Orkney Islands we caught a glimpse of Greenland.
Though they’re sailing for enjoyment and to see the world, participants in the Blue Planet Odyssey will also lend a hand to a range of scientific and educational endeavors.
Crews are rushing to finalize preparations for Jimmy Cornell’s Blue Planet Odyssey departure on Saturday, January 10, 2015.
With ice still blocking the way, the crew of Aventura makes the difficult decision to abandon their plans of a Northwest Passage transit.
The crew of Aventura pass the time in the Arctic while waiting for the ice to open up in the Northwest Passage.
Why take the Panama Canal to the Pacific when the Northwest Passage would do just as well?
We are happy to be in this protected bay … and wait.
When I went to say goodbye to Anders, I expressed my astonishement at how simple it had all been. I also asked if there is much crime given the ease of obtaining a gun. ‘None to speak of. Greenland must be one of the safest places in the world.’
In preparation for the transit of the Northwest Passage, I have been in contact with sailors who have accomplished a transit in recent years, have attended several lectures on the subject, have read all relevant material that I could find, and have also consulted people who have worked in that area.
Orkney fishermen waving at us as we pass them, the harbour master of Greenland’s main commercial port is waiting until close to midnight to welcome a yacht? Is the world changing, or is it just that in such remote places people still behave as everyone used to … once upon a time.
Although we were still some distance from the coast, we hoisted the Greenland courtesy flag, whose symbolic sun rising over a white horizon reflects the spectacle I had just witnessed.
Soon we were dodging small bits of ice, then larger ones, and finally mini-icebergs the size of Aventura.
Just before 11 o’clock local time, the sun came out, the mist cleared and almost exactly ten days after our departure from Stromness in the Orkney Islands we caught a glimpse of Greenland.
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