I have been sorting through some archival footage from my 2019 transit of the Northwest Passage aboard Oliver Huin’s Breskell. Maybe this will be fun for the armchair sailors. Maybe it will be helpful for those planning a future trip. Like Jimmy Cornell’s:

The High Latitude Challenge 2026-2027

I’ve heard it said that fewer people have transited the Northwest Passage by boat than have climbed Mount Everest. If true, I suspect that statistic may be challenged soon enough. Presently, only captains and vessels are acknowledged. I was only working crew.

These show the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, where Breskell wintered over and refit for her 2019 passage. The RNYC is on the Conception Bay side of the peninsula. There are excerpts from Breskell‘s voyage from Newfoundland to Greenland, which was a staging area for awaiting the clearing of ice from Baffin Bay and The Northwest Passage. Our crossing of Baffin Bay was entirely under power with nearly no wind at all.