Iceberg

Banco Burdwood, South Atlantic Ocean Lat 54 ° 26.41'S; Long 057 ° 42.21'W I perceive it, the Drake is behind us, we are back in the Atlantic after 15 months and 10.269 miles spent circumnavigating South America, pushing us down to the Antarctic Polar...

Paradise Harbor, Caughtrey Peninsula Lat 64 ° 54.12; Long 062 ° 51.90'W Back at sea, for a day full of adventures. We set sail at 07:30h, calling the Ukrainian station by radio and still thanking the whole crew not only for their hospitality, but...

Vernadsky Research Station, Galindez Island This morning I woke up with the question of what to do with the beam in the port side hull. It is only one plank out of the 20 sitting in each hull and with these temperatures and humidity, working with...

Vernadsky Research Station, Galindez Island I'm laying in the saloon, I decid to spend the night here, to check our anchor. I activated both radar and anchor alarm to rest a little, but I can not. The adrenaline that still flows in my body does not...

Port Lockeroy, Wincke Island It is three o'clock in the morning and finally the roar of the wind has stopped and with it the fear of losing the anchor and "go to rocks". Now only the ice alarm remains! Port Lockroy is a bay on the south west coast of...

Port Lockeroy, Wincke Island Yesterday night passed without surprises, the wind as expected fell completely, letting us enjoy a well-deserved, short rest. In fact, we wake up at 4:00h for frugal breakfast and after which we were ready to sail.. 94...

This morning we woke up at 7:00h, we had breakfast and immediately after hoisted our sails. More than 70 miles of navigation awaited us to reach our next anchorage, Mikkelsen Harbor on Trinity Island. We want to reach as soon as possible, Vernadsky...

Pendulum Cove Deception, South Shetland Island This morning we allowed ourselves a few more hours of sleep, we all needed to recover the energy spent to face the 4 days of navigation in the Drake. Around 10:00h we all met up in the living room to...

Few miles south of Estero Dock, Canal Wide joins Canal Conception which leads straight to the Strait of Nelson, in the open ocean. From there few dozen miles south Isla Evangelistas lighthouse marks the entry into the Estrecho de Magellanes. But we...

September 20th and 21st, 2015 Today we expect to reach our second glacier, one of the largest in Patagonia, the Ventisquero Pio XI. To get there, we set sail yesterday from Puerto Eden, and we had to make a diversione from our way to the south,...