After two weeks of Uruguayan hospitality, bureaucracy, Asados, a travel-lift, golden sandy beaches and much more we have extricated ourselves from Piriapolis, and are headed south. The hospitality will be missed, the bureaucracy not so much, the Asados have built us up ahead of Patagonia, the travel-lift, relocated from Punta […]
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Brit Liggett for Chilean Coast expedition!
The winner of the Electrolux Vac from the Sea-project has been selected. Well done to Brit Liggett who will be joining Sea Dragon as a crew member from Puerto Williams, through the wilderness of the Chilean fjords, to Valdivia. More from her to come! See what Electrolux have to say: […]
Read MoreTheory vs. Reality – marine debris through leaks in a perfect system
With our long-term partners at 5Gyres, we have had an ongoing disucussion about exactly why…and how plastic debris actually gets into the oceanic gyres…way out to sea. Ironically, the easy part of the discussion is how it gets from your local watershed – a neighborhood storm drain, creek or shoreline […]
Read MoreStuck in the middle of everything
For the first time in many weeks there is no wind and we find ourselves completely and utterly becalmed, adrift in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. Normally when racing we would be tweaking, adjusting and coaxing boat speed out of every zephyr of breeze, or on previous gyre […]
Read MoreEngine down… “trawling as usual”
News just in from the boat – an email from Dale: “We have had a little problem,” he begins. “We had a rope from the trawl wrap around the prop and pull the g/box (that’s gearbox) off the engine. The adaptor plate has broken and pulled the bolts out of […]
Read MorePassing-by
Thirty-six hours is hardly enough time to visit an island, to do it justice, a re-visit is in order to see properly the mountains, lush-forest, Napoleons’ Tomb, talk with friendly locals or just marvel at the topography. To the East lies Angola, to the West Brazil, en route from South […]
Read MoreWhere we are…
Where We Are And Where We Are Going And Where We’re Sampling Sea Dragon is making great headway, leaving St Helena in her wake. The team must sail due south for several days to reposition themselves for the east to west transect through the South Atlantic Gyre. First they […]
Read MorePioneers
Awaiting the yacht Sea Dragon in Walvis Bay, Namibia on the Skeleton Coast surrounded by thousands of Flamingos, hundreds of Pelicans and many Dolphins reminds me of growing-up. When everything was new and exciting, still to be learnt and discovered. Then, with the passage of time the complacency creeps […]
Read MoreNapoleon’s Island
Sea Dragon is just about to push clear of the last speck of land before she heads out across the open South Atlantic. The team landed on St. Helena 48 hours ago and is now pulling anchor. Though short, the stop was important for many reasons. The first sat phone […]
Read MoreThe High is Back
The unique challenge of the 5Gyres expeditions is that we need to deliberately SAIL a boat into an area with virtually no wind- the gyres. The gyre center is our constant target. The reason is collects debris is that it is the center of a circulation zone. While we are […]
Read MoreAMRF North Pacific Expedition Seeking Crew Now
Pangaea Explorations and Algalita Marine Research Foundation are now entering the advanced planning stages of a major expedition to the North Pacific Gyre. This is a critical return to the central Gyre. Sea Dragon will make the run NE across the entire Gyre from Hawaii to Vancouver Canada- landing at […]
Read MoreJungle to Desert
Quick update…. After almost two months nad 5,000 nm of sailing Sea Dragon has landed in one of the driest, harshest landscapes on earth. She anchored just this morning in Walvis Bay Harbor. The Namib desert is a long, long way from the jungle harbor she enjoyed on Ilha Grande, […]
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