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By Jimmy Cornell on 09.06.2015
Arctic Monkey, Lou Morgan’s Exploration 45, has started her long voyage bound for Greenland and Arctic Canada. Accompanied by Zetty and their daughters Zoe, Leah and Rosie this summer they will attempt an east …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 30.04.2015
M.V. Tamper in Golfito
M.V. Tamper
After four weeks of patiently waiting at Fish Hook marina in Golfito, Costa Rica, on Thursday 29 April Aventura was loaded onto M.V. Tamper, a Sevenstar yacht …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 06.04.2015
Map of Aventura route 2014
After the decision was taken to abandon the passage to Tahiti, rather than transit the Panama Canal again, and sail back to Europe across the Atlantic, a very …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 29.03.2015
After having completed a transit of the Northwest Passage in summer 2014 , Michael Thurston spent the winter on his own, aboard his faithful yacht Drina at Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands.
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By Cornell Sailing on 13.02.2015
Jimmy Cornell will be making a series of talks at the Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show this weekend, and you will also have a chance to come take a look at Aventura, Jimmy’s new boat, …
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By Doina Cornell on 02.12.2014
As part of the Sail the Odyssey science program, during our 2014 summer voyage to Greenland and the Canadian High Arctic with the Blue Planet Odyssey, we tried to photograph …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 03.11.2014
During this summer I completed a 8500-miles voyage in the North Atlantic that took me from London, UK, to Annapolis, USA, via Greenland and Arctic Canada. Throughout this voyage I used exclusively C-map …
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By Cornell Sailing on 29.09.2014
(photo: Emily Penn aboard Drina)
Michael Thurston, the owner of the Australian yacht Drina, sent us a message from Nome, Alaska, to inform us that he and his crew had reached the Pacific Ocean …
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By Cornell Sailing on 14.09.2014
We just received an unconfirmed report that Drina arrived in Tuktoyaktuk on Saturday, and are continuing from here to Alaska.
By Cornell Sailing on 03.09.2014
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 …
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By Cornell Sailing on 31.08.2014
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 31.08.2014
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 …
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By Cornell Sailing on 30.08.2014
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 29.08.2014
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 …
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By Nera Cornell on 28.08.2014
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 …
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By Nera Cornell on 27.08.2014
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 …
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By Cornell Sailing on 26.08.2014
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 …
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By Cornell Sailing on 25.08.2014
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 …
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By Nera Cornell on 22.08.2014
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.
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By Nera Cornell on 22.08.2014
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 …
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By Cornell Sailing on 20.08.2014
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 17.08.2014
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 …
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By Jimmy Cornell on 14.08.2014
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 …
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By Nera Cornell on 14.08.2014
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, …
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By Doina Cornell on 13.08.2014
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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