In Part II of this five-part series, the sailors on Northern Light, circumnavigating the Southern Ocean, make landfall first at remote Macquarie Island, with its king penguins, molting elephant seals, and a handful of scientists happy for the human company. Click here for Part I.
In this installment, documentary filmmakers Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke continue their 22,500-nautical-mile circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean. Sailing the 40-foot steel ketch Northern Light in the Roaring 40s, Furious 50s, and Screaming 60s, Deborah and Rolf explore the beautiful and far-flung subantarctic islands strung like pearls around the bottom of our planet. Click here for previous installments.
With plans in the works to send a couple to Mars, the BBC turned to high-latitude adventurers and CW contributing authors Deborah Shapiro and Rolfe Bjelke to hear how they cope as a couple during long periods of isolation. You can revisit their adventures circumnavigating Antarctica aboard their ketch Northern Light in this riveting five-part series.
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Horizon Yacht Charters was established in the British Virgin Islands in 1998 and since then has been offering world class sailing at our bases in the Caribbean and USA. Horizon offers bareboat, crewed and Learn to Sail (with ASA) charters on a range of monohulls and catamarans from 32ft-57ft in length at our Caribbean bases in the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, St Maarten, Grenada and the Grenadines, and in the US on the Chesapeake Bay, out of our base |
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Visit with Kyle Jachney aboard the new Hylas 56. Hell take you on an informative tour of the newest in their line of exceptional offshore cruisers.
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