Welcome Aboard Yacht Teleport!
 Ahoy there! Chris Bray and Jess Taunton here - two young Australian's, sailing the adventure of a lifetime! Having bought a tired old yacht in Canada in 2009, we spent three months in 2010 rebuilding her, named her 'Teleport', fell in love, and are now sailing her home to Australia, as slowly as possible, via the world's coolest & most remote places. In 2012 we became the first junk-rig (& youngest captain) to sail the infamous Northwest Passage in the Arctic above Canada! Considering as Jess had never sailed before, and Chris had to read up on junk-rig yachts and hand-starting single-cylinder boat engines, we've learnt lots already but can promise the next few years will be just as exciting, scary, heart-breaking and hilarious! Share the adventure with us!
Ready for the Winter!  [27th Sep 12] Comments (18)
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Well that's it for another year! Jess and I are now safely home in sunny Sydney, Australia, enjoying the beach without having to check over our shoulder for polar bears, feeling the actual heat from the sun melt into our skins, and happily watching the wind and the waves, without feeling that gnawing anxiety of having to try and sail through it all, before it freezes solid. Absolute bliss.
So our last update had us reluctantly refuelled and ready to sail onwards to NakNek to winter Teleport t...READ MORE >> |
No Home in Nome!! [6th Sep 12] Comments (17)
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After waiting out the weather in the lagoon at Barrow for several days, the winds finally swung in our favour on 30 Aug to head off on what we thought would be the final leg of our journey, the 570-odd miles to Nome, through the dreaded Bering Strait. While it was still dark at 5:30 we pulled up our anchor (hand over hand, as we do) and motored out of the lagoon beside Luc on Roxane, swung around the most northerly tip of Alaska and headed South. We silenced the engine, hoisted the sail and rock...READ MORE >> |
A Break at Barrow [27th Aug 12] Comments (14)
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What with all the ice, fog, narrow channels, polar bears (dozens of them, including one that I had to wrestle my camera back off which was tied to my fishing line back in the blow-up dingy), seismic explosions and stopping at tiny islands detailed in my childhood alaskan adventure books my dad gave me - it's been all action since leaving Tuktoyaktuk! We enjoyed a good break at Tuk - the mayor proudly showed us around, we had dinner with an Aussie couple who are the local nurses, and we marvelled...READ MORE >> |
Tucked safe in Tuk! [12th Aug 12] Comments (14)
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After bashing away motor-sailing to windward in 20 knots (40km/hr) winds for a few days, we finally rounded the corner and started following the bobbing marker bouys leading the way into Tuktoyaktuk (Tuk) (popn 900 people) harbour on the north Canadian mainland. With the wind and large swell now directly behind us, each wave lifted us upwards from the stern and surged us forward, making little Teleport surf down the waves at 11 kn (22km/hr), while I heaved port and starboard on the tiller to gui...READ MORE >> |
Here in Holman (Ulukhaktok)! [4th Aug 12] Comments (30)
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Day of departure: My now fiancée Jess and I woke full of excitement at 3:45 AM on Monday 30th July, did a last minute weather check, hugged all of our many friends who amazingly woke at 4AM just to see us off, and and cast off from the dock at Cambridge Bay. Unleashing the full might of all eight horses inside our noisy little one-lunger we *tonk* *tonked* clear, hoisted our beautiful tan junk-rig sail, silenced the horses and slid effortlessly away from town at a pleasant 4kn. Looking back, we ...READ MORE >> |
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