The Alpha Global Expedition video is now on www.stage6.com
The fast link direct to the video is tinyurl.com/ypjsem
AGX Video Download
Walrus resting on sea ice near Ostrov Peschanyy are included in the video
A half hour high definition video providing an overview of the AGX voyage from the UK via Cape Horn, Bering Strait, Russian Northern Sea Route to winter mooring in northern Norway is available as a free download.
go to http://tinyurl.com/28x3qe and click on linked file Title01.avi to start the download
The video file is 180 MB which requires a broadband connection to the Internet
Adrian on stage at the Earls Court Boat Show
Adrian will be appearing at the Earls Court Boat Show this year on Press and Preview Day (30th November – 12am to 7pm). He will be part of the opening ceremony hosted by Kenny and Gabby Logan and then will be interviewed on the main stage by Katie Derham in the shows ‘Great Explorers’ event. At 2.00pm he will be on the Whyte and Mackay stand (sampling some of their great brands!) and chatting to press and visitors. A new short film of Adrian’s voyage will be shown on the main screen throughout the show.
Flanagan on theboaters.tv
www.theboaters.tv have added a second clip in their coverage of Adrian’s vertical circumnavigation attempt. Download from:tinyurl.com/2nnotk
BBN Special Issue 4
The forth BBN Special covering the Alpha Global Expedition is now available as a free download from:
BBN Special Part Three
Download a copy of BBN Special Part Three, covering the arrival in Nome and the winter of 2006/2007
http://www.broadlyboats.com/pro_images/AlphaGlobalPt3.pdf
BBN Special Part Two
Download a copy of BBN Special Part Two, covering the repairs in Hawaii and hte continuation past the second antipodal point tinyurl.com/37log2
AGX Position Update
In port at Mehamn
72 00N
27 50 E
AGX Position Update
Adrian is fjord hopping around the northern coast of Norway. From Murmansk (yellow dot) he sailed to Vardo (magenta dot). From Vardo he has sailed to briefly anchor at Berlevag and is now sailing on towards Gamvik (red dot).
AGX Update
Adrian is sailing north from Vardo in Norway, after leaving Murmansk at the weekend.
The course has been simplified.
Adrian sailed from Provideniya up to the icefield at Proliv Vil’kitskogo, shown as green dots. It was a reasonably straight course along the narrow strip of clear water between the Russian coast and the Arctic icefield, except for the section at the East Siberian Islands. There Adrian had to carefully scout for a route between the islands because the NSR was still ice covered and impassable. The course shown has been simplified in this area.
He then sailed back east from PVK towards Tiksi, looking for a mysterious island that was marked on the charts, with a note to say it might not be located there, and he found it was not there. He then sailed west again to the island Ostrov Peschanyy as his first holding position, awaiting news of ice melt at PVK. From there he sailed further west to Ostrov Preobrazheniya as his second holding position closer to PVK. From there he sailed to RV with a small convoy that hoped to pass through PVK behind an icebreaker, but conditions were considered unsuitable by the icebreaker’s captain. Adrian then sailed a figure 8 course along the ice while his shore team, AARI and Marine Operations Murmansk considered the possibility of taking a dangerous inshore channel through PVK. That complex set of courses has been ommitted from the map above because of the map scale.
Marine Operations HQ advised him to sail for Tiksi and take a ship lift through PVK. That course to Tiksi (yellow dot) is shown as orange dots.
From Tiksi, Adrian and Barrabas sailed aboard the Kapitan Danilkin along the course shown as blue dots. Conditions did not permit the relaunching of Barrabas at sea and she was relaunched in Murmansk harbour, shown as a magenta dot.
The distances have yet to be calculated, but the distance sailed from Provideniya to PVK and back to Tiksi is close to the distance from Provideniya to Murmansk.
With winter closing in, Adrian still has to round North Cape and then head south for home. He may have to make a number of stops to shelter from the weather on the way home and will not make the final decision on which side of the North Sea to sail until he reaches southern Norway and can study the weather forecasts at that point.