Cape Parry

Saturday, August 25, 2012 August is a really good time to visit Cape Parry, with an average temperature of 8ºC (46ºF). In winter the average temperature is -29ºC (-10ºF). Record low with wind chill is -68.4ºC (-91ºF). There is a…

Smoking Hills

Friday, August 24, 2012 The hills are alive with fire. well, maybe it is just auto-ignition of sulfur-rich lignite deposits. Stephen got to view the display from the comfort of a helicopter.

Herschel Island, Canada

Thursday, August 23, 2012 After a lot of sailing we made it to the very northern shores of western Canada, a journey that was over 1,000 nautical miles. We stopped in the Kotzebue Sound to pick up fresh crew, some…

Nome (Siqnazuaq), Alaska

Friday and Saturday, August 17 and 18, 2012 We spent a day and and half in the little town on Nome. Home to a few thousand people and only accessible by plane or boat. We flew in and will leave…

Getting to Nome, Alaska

Thursday, August 16, 2012 We had an interesting time getting to Nome Alaska, the departure point for our trip through the New West Passage. It should have been a simple flight, but low clouds and maintenance on the main runway…

Northwest Passage Expedition

We headed North to join the The World and her groundbreaking voyage of exploration through the fabled Northwest Passage. This is the route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans along the north coast on North America. Roald Amundsen became the…

Annular Solar Eclipse

Sunday, May 20, 2012 We decided to drive to just north of Redding, CA, to make the most of the Annular Solar Eclipse and see the ‘Ring of Fire’. The event was the first one of its kind to be…

New Caledonia

New Caledonia

On April 7th I flew (as opposed to sailing from The Bay of Islands) from Auckland to Noumea, New Caledonia, to join Alison on The World. I arrived in the morning, got settled in, admired the new look of the…