As I have been building Tsunamichaser and have had plenty of time to think about the state of the world where I will float, the concept of voyaging has changed for me. This blog in the header talks of a trip down the Mackenzie River to the Beaufort Sea and westwards around Point Barrow. This is not wishfull thinking. Unlike in 1985 when I made this trip in late summer when it took days of pounding through multiyear ice to get to Pt. Barrow from Tuktoyuktuk, there has been either open water of 1/10 ice all the way that by late summer will be up to 300 miles wide. Google "Arctic ice charts" and see for yourself. Or go to http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/App/WsvPageDsp.cfm?ID=1&%23 I have been watching the ice charts for years the leads get bigger and stay open longer each year. The beaches are awesome. It could become a real destination cruising ground. It already is on some fronts.

There are other "interesting" cruising grounds I want to visit; like the Pacific Garbage Patch west of Southern California where Millions of tons of our stuff just floats in a great whirlpool of flotsam. I want to cruise here too.....

And on that note, who ever convinced Smirnoffs to make this ad, I applaude your Adbuster approach. So how about you, Exxon?

Smirnoff: The Sea

Posted Aug 01, 2007

From WWII fighter planes to Viking war ships, everything that has ever sunk into the sea gets thrown back onto land.