“We still have about 3200 nautical miles to go to Greenland. The second and third photos are the latest satellite images (from two days ago). Around Utqiagvik, the ice is broken up, but there’s still too much for us to navigate through safely. Get in there and we’d get crushed. The only boat operating there is the US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy. In the Victoria Strait area, there’s still plenty of fast ice—you could probably drive a tank on it. This highlights the challenge of the NWP: sailboats are not fast. By the time we can attempt to pass through, we’ll be in a rush to reach Greenland before the sea starts freezing again at the end of September. Additionally, autumn storms and dark nights pose serious hazards for navigating in icy waters. There’s no time for delays, and there’s also a chance that the ice does not open up enough”
They only have about 30 more days before the ice melt stops. I hope they make it past Alaska into Canadian waters so Canada can pay for their rescue. In other news, there was a recent story that Russia wants to establish a steady shipping route through the Arctic ocean to China. I’m not sure if it’s going to be seasonal but I think it would have to be. Either way it seems to me they’ll be relying on ice breakers most of the time. We hear constantly that ice is melting all over the world and yet the ferry boats in New York City harbor still dock at the same piers as they did 100 years ago.
We kind of need a “Libs of TikTok” for climate issues. They print a goofball story and someone prints the counter story which shows that they are full of seabiscutts.
So someone was trying to negotiate the Northwest Passage? Roald Amundsen did it, the first person ever, in 1905, and he had to dog sled the last leg (going from east to west).
I see that in the Internet article, they said global warming opened it up for larger ships in 2007. I guess global cooling took over again in 2024. A larger ship than a dog sled? A 12 foot ice boat?
Mr Z., you don’t have to go that far back. It was only one or two winters ago that a Russian ship, maybe more than one, was stranded all winter in a Siberian Arctic ocean port due to thick ice. Changing subjects, Minneapolis Minnesota has only hit 90° once this year. It wasn’t 92 it wasn’t 97… It was 90 for about 10 minutes on one day. The 10-day forecast shows no 90° days through the end of the month. Of course it won’t make the national news. In an average summer I think they get at least fourteen 90 and above days
I wonder why Russia, Canada, US and Finland are wasting money building new icebreakers.
Because they expect that the Red Sea may be closed to shipping indefinitely?
Because they think a Great Power might try to close the Straits of Malacca?
‘There’s no time for delays’
Actually, there is next year. This year is gone. You aren’t going to make it. Save your boat. Save other people the trouble of saving you.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/british-eco-adventurer-husband-found-160000236.html
You would think that if you were in a sailboat and needed a backup engine, say to steer during a storm, that you would want one that you could rely upon instantly and under severe conditions. At least that is what I would want.
“We’re doing everything we can to show that you can travel without burning fossil fuels.”
So the idiot husband removed a perfectly serviceable 10 to 15 hp diesel engine which would probably burn 2 or 3 pints of diesel fuel per hour and would be sized by the builder to drive the boat at it’s displacement hull speed in moderate conditions and fitted a weak electric propulsion unit.
The theory is gaining traction that they were run down by a bulk carrier possibly because they couldn’t get out of the way in time.
The crew on a big bulk carrier probably didn’t even notice that they had hit anything. Bridge watch asleep or goofing off and on autopilot.’
You can avoid reality, but you cannot deny the consequences of avoiding reality.
more proof why Polar bears are migrating to Antarctica