NorthWest Passage Sailing. Babouche.
September 14, 2007
A French team led by Sebastain Robinet have just completed the Northwest Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic in very unusual yacht.
It’s a 7.5m catamaran designed both to sail on water AND slide over ice. The team left Anchorage on the 19th May and made it to Greenland on September 9th.
For the ice, Yacht named Babouche, had
- A Rippled bow to mount on the ice
- Retractable rudder blades
- 2 skis mounted underneath the floaters
- 2 skates mounted under the rudder blades
Expedition Site. The Northwest Passage by Sailboat.
Cruising around West Cork. Watch those Mines!
August 28, 2007
RTE are reporting that a “viable” World War Two German anti submarine mine was discovered off the West Cork coast this afternoon and subsequently destroyed by the Irish Navy.
