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I've just launched the website www.YachtTeleport.com for my next series of adventures where Jess and I will start to sail our little 29 foot junk rig yacht home from Halifax, Canada, over the top through the Northwest Passage, Siberia etc.
Take a look at the website, sign up to the email news list to be kept in the loop! It's going to be pretty amazing.
The basic summary is:
Jess and I have bought a little wooden 29 foot junk-rig yacht called 'Teleport', and we've registed her as an Australian vessel, homeport: Sydney. The problem is, she's in Halifax, Canada - that'd be the 'wrong side' of Canada.
This problem is complicated further by Jess and I being adventurers at heart, and the idea of sailing her home the 'normal' way down to the balmly Carribean Sea, through Panama and across the tropical Pacific Ocean sounds, well, a bit tame. So instead, we've decided to sail her home up the coast of Greenland, over the top of Canada, through the bitter Northwest Passage, across to Alaska.
Other problems include Jess never having been sailing in her life, we've not even seen the yacht yet, we both get sea sick, and, we're not quite sure what we'd do with this little green yacht once we get her home. Sail little 'twilight races' every Wednesday? I don't think so. To postpone this conumdrum, we have opted to bring Teleport home via as many exciting, exoitc and remote locations we can find.
After Alaska, Siberia sounds good, and down the Kamchatka Peninsula, maybe onwards to Micronesia, Papua New Guinea and home that way? Who knows....
First things first though: The Northwest Passage.
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