Two sailors, one young and one old, have recently started their 2024 voyages through the Northwest Passage.

Tamara Klink is 27, and she sailed solo across the Arctic Circle in September 2023. Tamara and her yacht, Sardinha 2, remained iced in near Oqaatsut, West Greenland over the winter!

Now that the sea ice in Disko Bay has melted Tamara and Sardinha 2 are continuing their journey through the Northwest Passage, heading up the west coast of Greenland:

David Scott Cowper is 82, and his first solo voyage through the Northwest Passage, in the converted lifeboat Mabel E. Holland, began in the Davis Strait in 1986. After spending 3 winters north of the Arctic Circle, Mabel eventually travelled south through the Bering Strait in 1989:

David’s second solo voyage through the Northwest Passage took place from east to west starting in 2003. His purpose built motor vessel, Polar Bound, spent the winter in Cambridge Bay and completed the voyage in the summer of 2004:

For this summer’s east to west voyage David is travelling in Polar Bound once again, this time accompanied by Susannah Broome. They have crossed the North Atlantic from Newcastle and have recently departed from Qaqortoq in the south west of Greenland:

David is currently being treated for prostate cancer, and is using his latest exploit to help raise money for the “Daft as a Brush” cancer patient care charity:

Watch this space!