{"id":2008,"date":"2024-08-05T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T22:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/sailing-the-northwest-passage-solo\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T02:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:50:19","slug":"sailing-the-northwest-passage-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/sailing-the-northwest-passage-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing The Northwest Passage Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two sailors, one young and one old, have recently started their 2024 voyages through the Northwest Passage.<\/p>\n

Tamara Klink<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n

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Image: Tamara Klink<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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David Scott Cowper<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n

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Mabel E. Holland at Fort Ross
\nImage: David Scott Cowper \u2013 https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/1.0\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

David\u2019s 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:<\/p>\n

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Polar Bound at Cambridge Bay in 2009
\nImage: Cambridge Bay Weather \u2013 https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

For this summer\u2019s 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:<\/p>\n

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David is currently being treated for prostate cancer, and is using his latest exploit to help raise money for the \u201cDaft as a Brush<\/a>\u201d cancer patient care charity:<\/p>\n

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