I ask her how she is . "How did it go,
you know, through the hurricane and all?"
"Well", she replied, "it was
going great, I was holding well, and then
I looked out at one point and out of the mist
and spray there was this trimaran flying through
the air like a 747.........took out the mast
and all the rig!........but everything's cool!
Ellen Mc Arthur SEA
CONDITIONS TERRIBLE 12 Dec 2004 - 09:27
"I have had no sleep at all - its blowing
30 knots, its really really bad right now,
the sea conditions are terrible...I hope I'm
not in these conditions again in the trip..."
V isit the site: http://www.teamellen.com
Northabout!
In the summer of 2004 a group of experienced
Irish sailing friends are attempting to traverse
the North East Passage, or Northern Sea Route,
as Russians know it.
The route lies north of the Arctic Circle,
and is a frozen ice mass for most of the year.
The ice breaks up for a few short weeks in
August / September allowing passage through
with some difficulty.
Non-stop at Sea This was only a taste of the
1,000 day journey that Captain Reid hopes
to make later this year. “The object
of the voyage is to leave the land and all
support, sail for 1,000 days, non-stop at
sea without receiving help, to live at sea,
to be healthy…” said Reid.
He will not refuel, he will not re-supply,
and he will not pull into any harbor. One
idea behind the long isolation is to test
how it will affect the human spirit. This
is the exact kind of isolation that worries
space people as we plan the first manned voyage
to Mars - estimated to take 3 years. NASA
is of course an interested partner in Captain
Reid's ocean project.
Yoga exercises, united with sculpting, singing
and painting
But there is more to it for the Captain.
For many of his generation the philosophies
and lifestyles of the New Age Movement lost
out to modern life. But for Reid the influence
of eastern philosophy and the Beatle’s
Sergeant Pepper took hold in his psyche.
His positive thinking attitude and daily
yoga exercises, united with sculpting, singing
and painting almost go hand in hand with
his almost three year journey away from
the chaos of the civilized world.
