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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Re-launching, wildlife, leaks, engine repairs, ice, char, parties, and the biggest question of my life: The last couple of weeks have been so action packed that I've not had a chance to sit down and write an update, but as we're going to set sail tomorrow morning at like 4AM, I thought I'd better try and get something out! Sorry it's going to be a bit rushed! So while Teleport was still up on the cradle, I managed to get the old head off our prehistoric 1976 single-cylinder, hand-start SABB d...READ MORE >>

Well, here we are back in Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic! We're having wild goose-egg omelettes for breakfast, out the window I can see the ice covering the bay is starting to recede from the shore a little, and drifting in and out through the mist that's hanging over the ice I can see Teleport perched happily on her cradle on the distant hillside. Though the air is now perfectly still and the temperature a balmy 16 deg C with the sun blazing 24hrs/day in the bright blue s...READ MORE >>

Listen up folks - hear all about it! Chris and I will be flying to Brisbane tomorrow (Wednesday) morning for a 1hr interview with Richard Fidler on his very popular “Conversations with Richard Fidler" program - an in depth and personal chat all about our arctic sailing adventure. It will be broadcast live on ABC Local Radio all around Australia (almost). For those of you who live in NSW, QLD, SA & TAS tune in (check online for your local ABC local radio frequency) at 11am AEST tomorrow (Wednesda...READ MORE >>

TO DO After Teleport 2011 Trip: Write a bunch of articles *Tick* Run safari to the Galapagos Islands *Tick* Enjoy Christmas with the family *Tick* And New Years Eve with friends *Tick* Run two photographic safaris to Kenya *Tick* Plan for another Arctic summer aboard Teleport… Hmmm, we'd better get onto that last one hey! So - Yes - we've been getting a lot of messages from people wondering what the plan is, and specifically "are you really going back for more?!" Yes, yes we...READ MORE >>

Ok guys, get a comfy chair, get your self a drink of Christmas cheer and maybe even a bowl of pop-corn, invite some friends and family around, sit back, relax and enjoy the final instalment of our Teleport video updates for 2011. This video takes us all the way from Greenland, across Baffin Bay to the Canadian Arctic, into the infamous Northwest Passage, and on to Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island! It includes some epic wildlife footage like a pod of killer whales coming right up to the boat, polar...READ MORE >>