The rowers must be starting to see the first ice, because they are headed west – and their destination is to the east.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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More “figure rowing” … who ever made that comment the first time they rowed in circles take a bow … that was a great one!
The rowers warmist handlers have contacted the IOC to demand “figure rowing” to become an Olympic sport. It will be first dual purpose sport, highlighting the urgency of global warming while spectators are treated to rower artists compete for the 888 gold medal.
From the Rowing Teams latest web report, they have realised that anything other than a howling westerly prevents them making any meaningful headway.
Poor boat design for the trip is admitted. End of trip is nigh and a B for effort. (Golf clap)
It’s the boat’s fault.
Cancel the trip, blame the boat.
Don’t mention the ice.
CAGW propaganda save.
Brawndo Buzz.
They may have hitched a ride with an ice cube:)
“BIRDS OF A FEATHER MUST FLOCK TOGETHER” If you think TheLastFirst is lost then take a look at BABUSHKA catamaran… they are going SOUTH when they said they were going to the NORTH POLE… NORTH… duh! Check here: http://northwestpassage2013.blogspot.com/2013/07/babushka-lost-track-line-is-going-west.html?view=sidebar
See BABUSHKA GPS tracker: http://www.sat-view.fr/interface/interface.php?login=voiedupole
That’s an interesting one. Sailing across water and ice.
The route http://www.sebroubinet.eu/english/la-voie-du-pole.html
I hadn’t heard of this expedition. Are they trying to get to the magnetic north pole? Going to the actual North Pole would be impossible. Look at http://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/?map=-2328800,-364800,-1885920,-150016&products=baselayers,MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor~overlays,arctic_coastlines_3413&time=2013-07-14&switch=arctic and you’ll see why they are headed in the wrong direction. It’s the only way they can go.
No, they are trying (allegedly) to travel the NW passage.
Those eeeeeeveeeel deniers are jamming their GPS!!!
Could it be “Snow Blindness” ?
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-10-12/open-space/27173062_1_retinopathy-snow-sunglasses-or-dark-goggles
Good call! They are blind to all the snow and ice that is blocking their path!
Switch to the satellite view on their tracker and you will see that they are in very shallow water and are headed directly towards a sandbank. Let’s hope it’s not low tide!
What is on the back of the boat? A motor?
http://www.google.ca/imgres?q=arctic+joule&sa=X&rlz=1I7DACA_en&biw=974&bih=578&tbm=isch&tbnid=4yFMj1CoHUDjRM:&imgrefurl=http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/07/mainstream-last-first-team&docid=1apSunvP_BQByM&imgurl=http://cdni.wired.co.uk/620×413/a_c/arctic.jpg&w=620&h=413&ei=3fbmUeGkIY3VigLIwYD4Cg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=2&vpy=112&dur=2011&hovh=183&hovw=275&tx=127&ty=149&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=207&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:92
A rudder with adjustable reach.
Thanks for that. I thot it was sort of rudder but it seemed odd.
Now I know why.
Reggies blowtorch 😉
Their start date of July 1st was delayed and it looks like they could have delayed even longer, as we monitor their poor progress…
I wonder when they’ll throw in the towel?
They are heading back the right direction now. Might have had to go around something.
Reggie has the benefit of skeptical crowd sourcing and he is relaying their mistakes back to them. If they survive this it will be partially down to the realistic advice from SG.
… a bothersome family of polar bears, perhaps ? Thought they were tinned sardines !
Hey..these guys are prorowers..not like us in da sofa…they are paddling around taking pics and doing intresting research n stuff…maybe they take up racespeed any day and we all be stunned…how cool aint it rowing in bosstyle like these guys…woooo 🙂
a little bit of music for easy rowing
Ride On
http://youtu.be/R3cPYRqX1l4
That is dead solid perfect rowing music.
So they expected mostly tail-wind. Explains why they made the boat so upright, works like a sail.
I think the guys deserves some credit, they seem to be real fighters. Just hope nothing bad will happen. To my relief, most of the time they seem to follow my advice in an earlier thread, max 10 metres from shore. Safest thing walking alongside pushing.
Take a bow. There is no question that the rowers handlers are getting great advice from this website. Next years rowers will have to carry a “powered by stevengoddard.wordpress.com” sign on the stern.
stevengoddard.wordpress.com, keeping warmists alive, one idiot at a time
I agree that they deserve credit for courage, stamina, and dedication. This was originally about doing an extreme rowing feat, not about climate change. From that point of view, I am rooting for them, although the odds are against them unless it warms up and the wind comes out of the south and pushes the ice back.
Following the shoreline makes the distance very long so unfortunately they have to leave the coast sometimes. It will be interesting to follow how things proceed during the coming week(s).
Foolhardiness. Not courage.
I agree. What is the bloody point?
Just ugly
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/Ice_Can/CMMBCTCA.gif
These rowers should have used The Drebbel a submarine propelled with oars.
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4119/4909680231_8fdcc30cfe_z.jpg
It appears to me they made about 11 miles in the last two days. With about 1,550 more miles to go, they should be there by spring. If they don’t encounter any ice.
They are channeling Sir John Franklin, not Roald Amundsen. I wonder if they have seen the Franklin Expedition Mummies?
If you Google Map the points along their way, the satellite view is a lot different than the map view. They are hugging the sand bars and shallow areas and most of their points are seemingly parked right at sand bars. Their latest point is on the lee side of a sand bar, but looks like open water on the land map.
They will have to go roughly directly east for the next 20 miles to stay in shallow water. Then they’ll have to go few miles north around a point. The real test will be if they can keep going about 40 miles northeast after that because that’s the shortest path to the next point of land to get around.
At their rate of travel, they’ll have to spend the night (or two) on open water. 40 miles will take them days.
Going by the Alfred E Neuman photo, they can’t make the straight line route, barring some huge and enduring wind shift. Best they can do is somewhat curve through that bay then hang out until the ice on the other side clears up.
Looks like they’re bouncing off icebergs.
On the side of the boat it says “Pulling Together Against Climate Change”.
Same message, just no spiking of trees or a bunch of idiots standing naked by a glacier.
Should say “Walking Together Against Climate Change”.
Or maybe Towing?
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/naked-glacier-tunick-08182007/
I tell my kids all the time forget working for Google, work for Greenfleece instead.
High salaries, orgies and zero accountability, what could be better?
The thawed end of the Beaufort is apparently not what Team Twisted expected!
They will continue and make better progress by this weekend, but after that???
They should have watched this interview before attempting rowing.
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/economy-business/transport/breaking-the-ice-canada-and-the-northwest-passage/catamaran-journey.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVIaztlLG5I
What again exactly is the purpose of the present attempt?
http://www.fcpnorthwestpassage.com/about/previous-explorers
1921 – 1924: Greenlander Knud Rasmussen and two Greenland Inuit completed the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, travelling from the Atlantic to the Pacific, via dog sled.
1940: Canadian officer Henry Larsen was the second to sail the passage, crossing west to east, from Vancouver to Halifax.
1969: the SS Manhattan, a reinforced supertanker sent to test the viability of the passage for the transport of oil, made the passage. The route was deemed not to be cost effective.
1977: sailor Willy de Roos left Belgium and crossed the Northwest Passage in his 13.8 m (45 ft) steel yacht Williwaw, reaching the Bering Strait in September.
1984: the commercial passenger vessel MS Explorer became the first cruise ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.
July 1986: Jeff MacInnis and Wade Rowland set out on 18-foot catamaran Perception on a 100-day sail, west to east, across the Northwest Passage.
July 1986: David Scott Cowper set out from England in a 12.8 m (42 ft) lifeboat, the Mabel El Holland, and survived three Arctic winters in the Northwest Passage before reaching the Bering Strait in August 1989.
July 2003: a father and son team, Richard and Andrew Wood, sailed the yacht Norwegian Blue into the Bering Strait. She became the first British yacht to transit the Northwest Passage from west to east.
May 2007: a French sailor, Sébastien Roubinet, and one other crew member left Anchorage, Alaska, in Babouche, a 7.5 m (25 ft) ice catamaran designed to sail on water and slide over ice. They navigated west to east through the Northwest Passage by sail only.
I kinda miss Reggie. I hope he is ok