We are underway! Live satellite tracking. Bears sighted! (Patreon)

Hi all! We have left Seward after an intensive 5 week maintenance period. This "officially" marks the start of our Northwest Passage attempt. A few hundred miles sailed, around 4000 nm (7500 km) left to Greenland!

We  had a quick sail down the coast and across the entrance of Cook inlet (strong currents). We wanted to make as many miles as possible so we continued to the Shelikof Strait behind Kodiak island and made it into Geographic Harbor just in time before the next low pressure hit. We are now sitting at anchor, some wind here but not too bad. The weather buoy in the strait is now showing around 30 knot gusts, expected to get stronger in the next few days.

We now have automatically updating live satellite tracking here:
https://share.garmin.com/alluringarctic
I'm working on a tracking map that would have a wind overlay as well but it's not ready yet. In the meanwhile please don't share this link in the public yet.

Oh yea and as you might have noticed we've seen some bears. Immediately upon entering Geographic Harbor we saw two brown bears searching for clams on the beach. This area is very famous for its bear. This time of the year there's not much food available so the bears come to the beach during low tide and dig for clams. The shore was very steep so we were able to get really close! The bigger one of these two was HUGE. I only took a couple photos, the really good stuff is only in video format. We spent couple hours watching them systematically work their way through the beach.

We will be at anchor to wait out this storm, will take at least couple of days. Thanks for your support and can't wait to have some time to get my hands on this video footage...!