Yesterday morning they were 1610 km away from Pond Inlet, and now they are 1650 km away from Pond Inlet.
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Get to Paulituk, damage your boat, blame it on rocks and quit before you do something really stupid and tragic.
Yes, but wait for the rescue boat ^W ^W supply boat _before_ having the “accident”. 😉
I pulled into Paulatuk,
I was feelin’ about half past dead.
“Get a load off, Annie…Get a load, for free….
a-a-and…You put the load right on me!” (hic)
hilarious!
The ‘wailing and gnashing of teeth’ will be worse than we could have predicted a decade ago.
They’d better stop where they are. I don’t want them in Australia.
..we have enough boat people 😉
We should all start posting on their site asking if they are quitting when they reach Paulatuk.
Last night on their facebook someone posted that the ice had all melted out where they are in the last several days …. anyone know how bad it really is?
The kayak team is in Paulatuk and the rowing team is about 8km away.
Yesterdays sat image at arctic.io is clearer over the area the waders are in but there is still a lot of cloud cover there, I would suspect that there are still some pretty big chucks of ice there though. They have to go south because they cant go East!
Can’t or won’t … I expect a towel to be thrown in once they reach Paulatuk …. perhaps they will try to ram a rock and fatally damage the good ship Arctic Alarmism.
I just had a look and it is tough to tell cloud from ice but it does appear that the path to and parts of the Dolphin / Union Strait are filled with lots of drifting ice. Of course Reggie and others have assured the rowers it is all rotten, slushy first year ice, so soft and fragile that Barber the alarmist loon had to invent a new word for it … “decayed ice”.
“Waders” Allright, that’s more like it.
On the topic of quitting anyone have an idea of what kind of contract they would have with Mainstream their main sponsor. Would they get a bonus for finishing and come away with just a lot of wasted time for failure?
I was thinking of whether or not these bozos had real jobs (like the firemen) or are just free spirits of the loony left. Either way they have to eat and shelter their families etc and so they may need a completed mission or at least a serious attempt to get a reward and quitting now would have them coming home broke. Any thoughts?
The “Arctic Joule” should be renamed the “Arctic Erg”.
The whole team are “shoo-in” candidates for a Darwin Award.
I agree with others that they will have plenty of excuses.
I call them JERREs; J-Justifications; E- Explanations; R-Rationalizations; R-Reasons; E- Excuses.
Looks like they will make Paulatuk in 2-3 hours as of the time of this post.
I think they will have to make an open water crossing to Victoria Island if they want to continue after Paulatuk. There is no way that they can follow the south shore. If they make that crossing then they have a real shot at getting to Cambridge Bay.
The NW Passages east of Victoria Island are completely full of ice, so the final possible destination that I see as the journey’s end is Cambridge Bay (assuming they make that sea crossing call and continue on from Paulatuk).
Anyone else having issues with the SPOT feed on their website?
On my iPad there is no feed anymore, on my PCs it is there . . .
Same issue for my ipad, the feed stopped.
Laptop is ok.
They won’t throw in the towel just yet. At present, they have relatively clear passage down through Dolphin and Union Strait.
“relatively clear” … you don’t see the ice on the satellite photo? If you have a better sat link please provide it since I was having trouble telling ice from cloud and part of the strait area is completely cloud covered.
“We don’t need no stinkin’ shower !”
“We don’t need no stinkin’ anchor !”
“We don’t need no stinkin’ Paulatuk !”
as they rowed on past the little village.
Then I would know that they are really crazy.
two years in the planning….
and they take off on this trip with one anchor
…and surf with the wind into an island….knowing it’s got to be rock…and ice
in a boat they designed they can’t row into the wind
And their boat is white, so it’s hard to see in amongst ice.
OT … Steven give this a look – more proof of GLO-BULL warming! Oh I forgot … it is all climate change now 😉
“Bardin’s quality troubles echo analyst concerns at the start of France’s wheat harvest, the European Union’s biggest. Low protein, the result of a long winter and a cold, wet spring”.
From Bloomberg – http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-01/baguette-hopes-fade-for-some-french-farmers-on-low-protein-wheat.html
They are rowing into a 5 mile per hour headwind as they row east to Paulatuk.
That really slows them down. They make way better speed with much higher headwinds.
It’s related to the “warming causes cold” meme… stronger headwinds exponentially increases their forward motion. For climate warmists, the laws of physics fundamentally change when necessary to buttress their cause. Gaia generously rewards her devotees.
If I were in their position, I’d strap my GPS with low battery charge to a polar bear heading in roughly the NW direction and let it wander about for a few days while tossing back a few hot chocolates and whiskeys in Paulatuk. Wait a couple of days after the GPS goes out and call the mission a success.
That would make a good rodeo event …. strapping a GPS on a polar bear …. more exciting than bull riding and even more dangerous.
Probably a better chance of doing that than rowing through the NW Passage. 🙂
Mainstream Last First.
Interesting how they use opposites in naming their adventure, last and first.
I would offer the contrasting words “again” and “never” to rename this fiasco…
Mainstream Never Again.
Over and Out.
They should be getting tired of seal by now.
Hopefully they can get to taste some beaver in Paulatuk.
They can claim they found a little “Northwest Passage” after a long hot shower.
Paulatuk International Airport in sight !
Right now about 20mins to make a stop at Paulatuk .
They can meet up with the kayak team to exchange notes.
Maybe they can get a dog team and put some wheels and skids on the boat for the rest of the journey.
They’ve probably meeting now. The GPS is transponding from the north end of the elbow macaroni-shaped pond on the west side just to the west of where Larry, Moe, Curly and Shemp parked their boat on the east side in the cove.
Except for, perhaps some luck from Mama Gaia, I guess this is their first human contact since Tuk.
Looks like a tug was just launched at Tuktoyaktuk. http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=VC6749
This boat PISURAYAK KOOTOOK – callsign VC6749, doesn’t seem to have reported its position since 2004 (built 1969), but it’s history shows it
to normally be in that area (so it’s plausible that it’s real – not a “ghost ship”). Is this the rescue boat?
It may be going after the Aussie sailors that are stuck just out side Tuk!
Ah, fair enough. Have you got any details for the Assies?
this is all I have got:
http://www.beyondthecircle.com/follow/
They are still moving, since the last time I checked their location.
Here’s a funny thing. I just noticed Kootook reporting Air temp 12.6C, water temperature 11.3C
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=VC6749
so I checked out the US coast guard ice-breaker “USCGC Healy” and they’re reported water temperatures of 23C!
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=NEPP