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Our Logbooks
The first ones are available here: from the Northwest Passage in 2012 to aTahiti in 2015, accompanied by many photographs. You can read them from this page:
Soon the story of the logbook on social media will resume with the completion in 2019 of the tour of the Arctic passing along the Siberian coast. If you have access to facebook you can find them all on our page https://www.facebook.com/avelainoceano/ I recommend you follow it by clicking on "follow". Enjoy the reading
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L'Artico, un ambiente che cambia
Best Explorer started a new life
Best Explorer has found new owners in Denmark who will take care of her. They've stated they won't change her glorious name.
Best Explorer is resting at its winter mooring in Copenhagen.
Since her launch she has sailed for almost forty years, first in the Mediterranean, then since 2007 she has fearlessly launched herself into the oceans. In these more than sixty thousand miles, she was the first to proudly carry the Italian flag, not only to complete the Northwest Passage north of America and the Northeast Passage north of Siberia, but consequently to circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean, first in the world to do it completely clockwise.
.We had the pleasure of receiving compliments from the new owners, along with New Year's greetings, special appreciation of the boat which they found to respond exceptionally well to their wishes.
For the time being, the Association remains active with its wealth of experience, especially in the Arctic, and the vast documentation that covers a good stretch of the coasts and islands of the world.
Fair Winds Best Explorer!
Arctic circumnavigations: the first boat to attempt it clockwise was the Irish "Northabout" in 2001, but cutting out Scandinavia. The second was the Danish "Olga", from 1999 to 2007, but with an anti-clockwise section.
2019 - The North East Passage
The first Italian boat to do it
The first Italian boat to circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean
The absolute tithe
The second boat in the world to do it clockwise
The three volcanoes of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Koryaksky, Avachinsky and Kozelsky, Kamchatka (photo Kozinchev)
The route of the expedition
The Northeast Passage (properly Northern Sea Route) connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean passing north of European Russia and Siberia.
It is a route used in the summer for a long time for trade along the coasts of Russia, with the help of icebreakers.
Unlike the Northwest Passage, sailboats rarely traveled by motorcycles, both due to the difficulty of obtaining transit permits, and due to the permanence of the ice along the coasts, which extend much further north, and finally due to the scarcity and distance of refueling points.
Starting from Japan to get to Tromso, the distance is similar to that traveled from Tromso to Alaska, but the purely arctic stretch is much longer.
Very brief historical note
The first attempt to travel the route from Europe was made in 1553, obviously without success.
The first westerner to travel the Northeast Passage was the Swede Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld in 1878, but it is likely that Russian boats have sailed along the coasts much earlier.
The boat
Best Explorer
It's a 51 'steel cutter
It is the boat with which we passed 80 ° north, made the Northwest Passage, crossed the Pacific. and completed the Northeast Passage, becoming the second in the world to have circumnavigated the Arctic clockwise, as well as, obviously, the first Italians to complete all three feats.
It is equipped for explorations.
Made to accommodate 12 people, we have reduced the capacity to 8 seats to make room for all the supplies and spare parts needed for long journeys without support points.
Comfortable without being luxurious, it offers unexpected comfort especially in case of bad weather, thanks in particular to the canopy that protects the puddle from waves and wind.