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Nor in Arctic waters. I know of a only one transit of the Northwest Passage that has included children. Regular car cruising with children is one thing. High latitudes, the NWP via Newfoundland and Greenland on a 30’ wooden sailboat with two young teenagers…hmmm… No fanfare, no sponsors...

The Heywoods. As in Baron and Lady Heywood. Sheesh. Of Whitehall. Get your barons and ladies right! :)

I understood that the reason, or at least a key reason, is that, for whatever reason, she had limited weather info up the S. Atlantic. Back on March 10 as they were just coming N from around Cape Horn, the GGR folks posted this below, which suggested to me there were issues (of what sort I...

Looks like you’d have to go way farther west for a reasonable (sailing) transit of the doldrums - super wide in the east, but maybe this is a seasonal variation? Am currently following the Golden Globe Race, and a sailor who went east (going N from Cape Horn) is being quite penalized by being...

Of course, those qualities also describes lots of other risky pursuits that some people choose to do (attempting very dangerous ice climbing routes; backpacking to dangerous, war-torn places; soloing nonstop around the world on small boats, etc.) Human behaviour is actually hard to account for...

I’d never heard of that solar oven - seems like a great idea. Simple. I’d also be interested in hearing anyone’s experience with one. (That company’s $13,000 inflatable solar electric boat-like floating object, not so much… :) https://gosun.co/products/gosun-elcat-solar-powered-electric-boat)

Ha! 2009! Hadn’t seen that. I have a feeling the new owners of this site recycle old threads to generate traffic? Is that a thing?

I think that their book, “Northern Light” (or maybe “Time on Ice”) may have some descriptions of the boat. Thinking it’s going on 30 or so years, based on the book publication dates… :-)

Europe to Oz and back via Cape Horn. At some point, babies were born. (I believe this was the first catamaran sailed around the world.) Early 1970s. I haven’t read the book, but I’m not sure if it was like Wavewalker’s full-on Southern Ocean passage, but I think I remember reading somewhere...

I wouldn’t be cheap.

That’s hilarious. Not the sinking. That it made it into the NYTs. Just keep in mind that, in terms of its place in culinary history Ranch dressing was invented by a plumber. From Alaska.

Cool boat, or more shit on the oceans? Maybe both. I mean, I’m super happy for Angus Rowboats, who’ve designed and built some very cool boats (and done some very cool things: first entirely human powered circumnavigation of Earth, I believe), but I guess more and more drones are an inevitable...

Right. Armed mercs and razor wire. Makes sense :) Not having looked into it in any detail (not having imminent big sailing plans) I was under the impression things had calmed down there in recent years in terms of piracy, etc. Sailing up the Red Sea sea sounds brutal, but quite an amazing...

My impression/limited knowledge from reading over the years is that Pacific Seacrafts (right?) are stoutly built. Not your average “production boat” (however that’s actually defined…impossible to). BTW, Is that a more common way to go nowadays, as opposed to via the Red Sea/Med, b/c of...

Best on-board pizza recipes.

Beneteau folks arguing about Beneteaus. Best “definition” might be to see how a small ULDB like an Olson 30 or Moore 24 performs? Here’s a much bigger boat, one of the Clipper RTW race boats surfing - at 30 knots. Rapid acceleration for short bursts of high speed is how I understand it...

Well, someone just needs to find and read a copy of his book, Schooner to the Southern Oceans: The Captain James Cook Bicentenary Voyage 1776-1976 I’d actually be interested in reading it (if it was easily obtainable) just for the descriptions of Southern Ocean sailing and their shipwreck and...

It is a very interesting Marxian reading of this obscure bit of modern cruising history (and modern. British history). (Obscure enough that the father’s grandly titled cruising narrative referenced above, celebrating Captain Cook’s voyages, is nowhere to be found for sale online.) Now, can we...

S/V Jonathon, current in Caleta Banner down near Cape Horn, assisting Golden Globe Race skipper Ian Herbert-Jones, in last place, who just had to pull in there after rounding the Horn, to sort out his damaged windvane steering. Turns out Jonathan was nearby, and helped with the repair -...

My post was, of course, (I hope it was obvious) tongue-in-cheek - but reading a bit about the family in light of her publishing her story, and then seeing that her father had earlier published his own story about the voyage, got me wondering what his take on the whole experience is: probably...