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COMMENTS
The Boat
The Boat. 'Northabout' was designed and built specifically for Polar Exploration. Northabout was designed by Caroff Duflos Naval Architects, Paris France. Built in 2000 by Jarlath Cunnane in a workshop in Mayo, with a lot of help from the team members and friends. The build time from start to finish was fifteen months, a remarkably fast time ...
North East Passage rescue: Extract from Northabout by Jarlath Cunnane
Northabout by Jarlath Cunnane is published by Collins Press, RRP £20. Eventually Campina made direct radio contact with us. She had moored 25 miles south of our position. The engineers from ...
The Boat
The Expedition Boat. Outline Specification. The 49 foot Northabout, an aluminium built sailing boat under construction May 2000 with four of the crew. Turning the partly completed hull, September 2000. Irish Expedition - North West Passage - A 7,800 mile voyage starting in Westport in June 2001 and ending in Vancouver on the Canadian Pacific.
Polar Circumnavigation: An extract from Open Water Breaking Ice
When Sir David Hempleman-Adams decided to attempt the first British challenge to make both passages from west to east in a single season, Northabout was the boat of choice. He convinced Jarlath to ...
The Team
The Team. Jarlath, Owner and Skipper of Northabout the expedition boat. A construction manager from County Mayo, Jarlath has sailed extensively throughout the North Atlantic and Mediterranean with a lifetime's sailing experience off the West Coast of Ireland. He built and sailed Tom Crean, the replica of Shackletons' James Caird lifeboat used ...
Northabout
Over four years Cunnane and a crew of fellow Irishmen sailed a 49-foot aluminum cutter, also known as Northabout, from Ireland and through the Northwest Passage and then back through the Northeast Passage. They also spent the two seasons between the main voyages exploring the Inside Passage. Cunnane's sense of adventure impressed Van Blaircom ...
North East Passage ice rescue: Extract from Northabout by Jarlath
Northabout is a 15m Gilbert Caroff design in aluminium ... The boat chosen by this most capable mariner is an Elliott 1250 Tourer, 12.5m x 4m x 2.4m, with a displacement of 8,500kg, a deep, narrow bulb keel and a stern-hung spade rudder.
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The Northabout is a historic sailing vessel specially designed and fully equipped to navigate the polar worlds. Designed by the famous French naval architect, Gilbert Caroff, Northabout is based on the plans of a Nadja 15. It is the only sailing boat to have made two complete circumnavigations of the Arctic, one of which took four months and ...
Three Irish yachtsmen conquer the hazardous Northwest Passage
The crew of a Knock-built sailing boat, the Northabout, has completed the first Irish navigation of the hazardous Northwest Passage. The expedition, which covered some 7,800 miles, was led by Mr ...
North About : Sailing the North West and North East Passage
Description. An excellent book for anyone with an interest in exploration, this is the true story of eight Irishmen and their fifteen metre aluminium boat, Northabout.The crew would use this boat to sail the ice-choked channels of the Northwest passage, the Russian North East Passage, and complete a successful polar circumnavigation, becoming the first yacht to do so sailing in a westerly ...
Northabout Passage
Cunnane pushed Northabout hard across the Barents Sea and on Sept. 5 arrived at the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk, completing the Northeast Passage. Northabout rounded Norway's North Cape and sailed along the coast, across the North Sea and through Scotland's Caledonian Canal to the Irish Sea.
'Not enough ice for a gin and tonic:' two weeks in the Northwest
This unreinforced sailboat managed to circumnavigate the top of the world in 20 weeks. ... During the Northabout's two-week transit of the famed Northwest Passage, for example, he said there was a ...
After unusual Arctic storms, sea ice coverage in region is plummeting
A sailboat is getting closer to circumnavigating the Arctic as sea ice cover continues to plummet. ... The sailboat Northabout pictured in Svalbard, Norway, in 2016. Credit: polar ocean challenge ...
Northabout : Sailing the North East and North West Passages
Eight Irishmen and their 47-foot aluminum boat "Northabout" left Westport Co. Mayo in June 2001 to sail the Northwest Passage. Completing the voyage in a record thirteen weeks, the crew returned home leaving the boat in Alaska to cruise British Columbia in 2002. The call of the wild induced a return to the Arctic in July 2004 to try the more difficult Northeast Passage - a longer, more ...
Extract from Sailing through Russia: From the Arctic to the Black Sea
Jarlath Cunnane's book Northabout is a must for anyone dreaming of ice navigation or who is fascinated by the history… A world beneath: Freediving in Northern Norway from a 37ft production boat
Northabout: Sailing the Northwest and Northeast Passages
This is the story of eight Irishmen and their 47-foot aluminium boat Northabout who left Westport in June 2001 to sail the North West Passage. Rivalling the Antarctic in terms of drama and tragedy, this iconic and elusive route meanders north of Canada and Alaska through the Arctic Ocean. Many had attempted this journey. Many had failed.
Boréal Sailboats-An Introduction
A new boat launched recently on the French market that incorporates a good deal of sound thinking has recently been reviewed in many of the sailing magazines here and has gained rave reviews. The Boréal 44 is the second in a range (the first is a 50) designed and built by Jean-Francois Delvoye and his team at Treguier on the North Brittany coast.
This is the ideal boat to sail the NW Passage?
In 1940-1942 and 1944, a motorsailer, the canadian St.Roch with an Australian Eucalyptus (Iron Bark) hull, did the thing back and forth. In 2001 a Caroff Duflos designed, ice-strengthened yacht, Northabout, went through the Northwest Passage from Ireland to the Pacific by way of Greenland, Arctic Canada and Alaska.
The Expedition Team
Jarlath is responsible for the building of Northabout, the expedition boat and will be the Skipper. A construction manager from County Mayo, Jarlath has sailed extensively throughout the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea with a lifetime's sailing experience off the West Coast of Ireland. ... Terry sails with the East Antrim Boat Club. He has ...
Optimist Class
The Optimist dinghy is the world's most popular sailboat for children. North Sails offers multiple sail designs to match your sailor's weight and wind conditions. North has two styles of optimist sails. The Crossover Mainsail is an entry-level sail designed for beginners. This mainsail will carry beginners from their first days on the water ...
Cruising
Every North cruising sail is custom-designed for your boat and sailing style. By matching the right sail materials to your sailing goals, you'll be even happier with your new North sails. That could mean easier furling and flaking, smoother tacking and jibing, headache-free sail handling and storage, or optimum performance and longevity. ...
7 Hotels Where You Can Set Sail on a Private Yacht
Guests embark from Tribeca's North Cove Marina for a two-hour private charter aboard the 70-foot Herreshoff sailboat, which can accommodate up to 25 for cocktails, a custom menu from one of the ...
The Expedition
The Vessel will be named Northabout, 49 foot long, it will be powered by diesel engine. The boat is being built by the team under the direction of boat builder Jarlath Cunnane and will have its sea trials conducted off the Irish west-coast in spring 2001. The expedition will combine a modern small boat passage and engagement with the polar ...
Hingham Bay boat collision near Grape Island causes sailboat to sink
Two boats collided near Grape Island in Hingham Bay on Friday, fire department officials said. The U.S. Coast Guard said it responded to a collision between a 21-foot sailboat and a 38-foot power ...
British entrepreneur Lynch missing, one dead after yacht sinks ...
The 56-metre-long (184-ft) sailboat was identified as the British-registered Bayesian and sank with 22 people on board shortly before sunrise, the Italian coast guard said in a statement.
Background
Our boat Northabout has, in the Summer of 2003, been taken to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. There we will join ship next June to prepare, take on stores and depart for Providenyia, just south of the Bering The obtaining of the necessary Permits from the Authorities is a major precursor to sailing in the waters of Northern Russia. This is a ...
IMAGES
COMMENTS
The Boat. 'Northabout' was designed and built specifically for Polar Exploration. Northabout was designed by Caroff Duflos Naval Architects, Paris France. Built in 2000 by Jarlath Cunnane in a workshop in Mayo, with a lot of help from the team members and friends. The build time from start to finish was fifteen months, a remarkably fast time ...
Northabout by Jarlath Cunnane is published by Collins Press, RRP £20. Eventually Campina made direct radio contact with us. She had moored 25 miles south of our position. The engineers from ...
The Expedition Boat. Outline Specification. The 49 foot Northabout, an aluminium built sailing boat under construction May 2000 with four of the crew. Turning the partly completed hull, September 2000. Irish Expedition - North West Passage - A 7,800 mile voyage starting in Westport in June 2001 and ending in Vancouver on the Canadian Pacific.
When Sir David Hempleman-Adams decided to attempt the first British challenge to make both passages from west to east in a single season, Northabout was the boat of choice. He convinced Jarlath to ...
The Team. Jarlath, Owner and Skipper of Northabout the expedition boat. A construction manager from County Mayo, Jarlath has sailed extensively throughout the North Atlantic and Mediterranean with a lifetime's sailing experience off the West Coast of Ireland. He built and sailed Tom Crean, the replica of Shackletons' James Caird lifeboat used ...
Over four years Cunnane and a crew of fellow Irishmen sailed a 49-foot aluminum cutter, also known as Northabout, from Ireland and through the Northwest Passage and then back through the Northeast Passage. They also spent the two seasons between the main voyages exploring the Inside Passage. Cunnane's sense of adventure impressed Van Blaircom ...
Northabout is a 15m Gilbert Caroff design in aluminium ... The boat chosen by this most capable mariner is an Elliott 1250 Tourer, 12.5m x 4m x 2.4m, with a displacement of 8,500kg, a deep, narrow bulb keel and a stern-hung spade rudder.
The Northabout is a historic sailing vessel specially designed and fully equipped to navigate the polar worlds. Designed by the famous French naval architect, Gilbert Caroff, Northabout is based on the plans of a Nadja 15. It is the only sailing boat to have made two complete circumnavigations of the Arctic, one of which took four months and ...
The crew of a Knock-built sailing boat, the Northabout, has completed the first Irish navigation of the hazardous Northwest Passage. The expedition, which covered some 7,800 miles, was led by Mr ...
Description. An excellent book for anyone with an interest in exploration, this is the true story of eight Irishmen and their fifteen metre aluminium boat, Northabout.The crew would use this boat to sail the ice-choked channels of the Northwest passage, the Russian North East Passage, and complete a successful polar circumnavigation, becoming the first yacht to do so sailing in a westerly ...
Cunnane pushed Northabout hard across the Barents Sea and on Sept. 5 arrived at the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk, completing the Northeast Passage. Northabout rounded Norway's North Cape and sailed along the coast, across the North Sea and through Scotland's Caledonian Canal to the Irish Sea.
This unreinforced sailboat managed to circumnavigate the top of the world in 20 weeks. ... During the Northabout's two-week transit of the famed Northwest Passage, for example, he said there was a ...
A sailboat is getting closer to circumnavigating the Arctic as sea ice cover continues to plummet. ... The sailboat Northabout pictured in Svalbard, Norway, in 2016. Credit: polar ocean challenge ...
Eight Irishmen and their 47-foot aluminum boat "Northabout" left Westport Co. Mayo in June 2001 to sail the Northwest Passage. Completing the voyage in a record thirteen weeks, the crew returned home leaving the boat in Alaska to cruise British Columbia in 2002. The call of the wild induced a return to the Arctic in July 2004 to try the more difficult Northeast Passage - a longer, more ...
Jarlath Cunnane's book Northabout is a must for anyone dreaming of ice navigation or who is fascinated by the history… A world beneath: Freediving in Northern Norway from a 37ft production boat
This is the story of eight Irishmen and their 47-foot aluminium boat Northabout who left Westport in June 2001 to sail the North West Passage. Rivalling the Antarctic in terms of drama and tragedy, this iconic and elusive route meanders north of Canada and Alaska through the Arctic Ocean. Many had attempted this journey. Many had failed.
A new boat launched recently on the French market that incorporates a good deal of sound thinking has recently been reviewed in many of the sailing magazines here and has gained rave reviews. The Boréal 44 is the second in a range (the first is a 50) designed and built by Jean-Francois Delvoye and his team at Treguier on the North Brittany coast.
In 1940-1942 and 1944, a motorsailer, the canadian St.Roch with an Australian Eucalyptus (Iron Bark) hull, did the thing back and forth. In 2001 a Caroff Duflos designed, ice-strengthened yacht, Northabout, went through the Northwest Passage from Ireland to the Pacific by way of Greenland, Arctic Canada and Alaska.
Jarlath is responsible for the building of Northabout, the expedition boat and will be the Skipper. A construction manager from County Mayo, Jarlath has sailed extensively throughout the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea with a lifetime's sailing experience off the West Coast of Ireland. ... Terry sails with the East Antrim Boat Club. He has ...
The Optimist dinghy is the world's most popular sailboat for children. North Sails offers multiple sail designs to match your sailor's weight and wind conditions. North has two styles of optimist sails. The Crossover Mainsail is an entry-level sail designed for beginners. This mainsail will carry beginners from their first days on the water ...
Every North cruising sail is custom-designed for your boat and sailing style. By matching the right sail materials to your sailing goals, you'll be even happier with your new North sails. That could mean easier furling and flaking, smoother tacking and jibing, headache-free sail handling and storage, or optimum performance and longevity. ...
Guests embark from Tribeca's North Cove Marina for a two-hour private charter aboard the 70-foot Herreshoff sailboat, which can accommodate up to 25 for cocktails, a custom menu from one of the ...
The Vessel will be named Northabout, 49 foot long, it will be powered by diesel engine. The boat is being built by the team under the direction of boat builder Jarlath Cunnane and will have its sea trials conducted off the Irish west-coast in spring 2001. The expedition will combine a modern small boat passage and engagement with the polar ...
Two boats collided near Grape Island in Hingham Bay on Friday, fire department officials said. The U.S. Coast Guard said it responded to a collision between a 21-foot sailboat and a 38-foot power ...
The 56-metre-long (184-ft) sailboat was identified as the British-registered Bayesian and sank with 22 people on board shortly before sunrise, the Italian coast guard said in a statement.
Our boat Northabout has, in the Summer of 2003, been taken to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. There we will join ship next June to prepare, take on stores and depart for Providenyia, just south of the Bering The obtaining of the necessary Permits from the Authorities is a major precursor to sailing in the waters of Northern Russia. This is a ...