Northwest Passage - 2015

[baabs]

Is there a possible way by the cape Alert during the driving season? The top of the white coolar wolf?
Diamonds end road...

[Garrettw]

Originally Posted by baabs

Is there a possible way by the cape Alert during the driving season? The top of the white coolar wolf?

Diamonds end road...

Yeah, I sure remember the first time I had shrooms too. Wild ride...


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[GG2015]

So what in the heck are you doing posting the entire NW Passage list... such a long document... learn to post the url, i.e. http://www.rccpf.org.uk/images/websi...-2014-X-5C.pdf

See you outdoors... on the water!

[baabs]

Sent from my vintage nokia E61 a must have!

[baabs]

Flying your eyes to my album of curiosity to have an idea of the way icea.
Many thinks to Mr Yeswecan and his team s

[SailOar]

Originally Posted by GG2015

So what in the heck are you doing posting the entire NW Passage list... such a long document... learn to post the url, i.e. http://www.rccpf.org.uk/images/websi...-2014-X-5C.pdf

Sorry. Sometimes I forget that a few Twitter users have migrated over to CF.

[GG2015]

Anyone interested in a 2015 or 2016 NW Passage Expedition? Several boats have been asking me for leads.

Message me privately with your contact details if you are interested.

See out outdoors... on the water!

[SailOar]

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

[Rustic Charm]

Originally Posted by StuM

Here we go again.

shhh no one tell Reefmagnet or we will never stay on thread

[SailOar]

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Arctic sea ice is near a record minimum for this time of year -- over the time period for which there are historical records.

[cwyckham]

Salty Kisses has just left for the NWP with 3 young kids!
http://saltykisses.net/

[Boatguy30]

They have a great boat but when I was aboard early this year well short of equipped for the trip. They were sending out emails seeking donations of gear at that time. Not sure of the liability of having your gear sponsoring a trip like that?

Hopefully its smooth sailing this year like the year the nearly stock Bavaria 44 did it a few years back.

[SailOar]

June 5, 2015: 25 Rosatomflot opened the season tourist cruises to the North Pole

June 4 from the port of Murmansk atomic icebreaker "50 Years of Victory" FSUE "Atomflot" with tourists aboard headed for the North Pole. This year, seven cruise scheduled flights. According to Deputy General Director of Fleet Operations FSUE "Atomflot" Andrey Smirnov, the first flight will last twelve days, and the remaining six - eleven.

"It has nothing to do with the change of the route and the exclusivity of the first flight, - said Andrei Smirnov. - In June, a complicated ice conditions, so the duration of the cruise slightly increased. "

In this year's first cruise flight 117 off tourists. Organizers prepared for their journey exciting program, which includes familiarity with picturesque bays Arctic, polar barbecue and swimming in the Arctic Ocean.

"The first time you look at the Arctic, it seems that in front of you is empty and bare countryside - says expedition leader Alex McNeil. - But then we see the polar bears, seals, walruses, birds and plants. We learn to see life in these parts.

This year, companies are charterers company «Quark», «Poseidon», «Volento» and «Zehgram». A series of tourist cruises completed by the end of August.

August 8, 1990 the first tourists to the North Pole brought nuclear-powered icebreaker "Russia". The captain of the flight was Anatoly Lamech. Since 2007, the cruises are made only on the submarine "50 Years of Victory".

translation provided by Google

[cwyckham]

Originally Posted by SailOar

June 5, 2015: 25 Rosatomflot opened the season tourist cruises to the North Pole

translation provided by Google

As cool as it would be to go to the North Pole, I sure wouldn't want to do it on a Russian atomic ship!

[StuM]

> This year, seven cruise scheduled flights. According to Deputy General Director of Fleet Operations FSUE "Atomflot" Andrey Smirnov, the first flight will last twelve days, and the remaining six - eleven.

What a great idea - drive an ice breaker around the area for seventy odd days.

Then they can complain about the "unprecedented break up of the ice".


And a quick update for those still planning the passage this year. NOAA are still predicting Aug-Oct to be well above average ice extent (over half a million square kilometers above historical norm in August):

http://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/prod...nd3/sieMon.gif