Yeva, Restarted

 

After two days on land (Grimsey Island), Ella Hibbert and the Yeva are back at sea once again. Hibbet spent one additional day ashore just to further inspect the electronics that fried out last weekend and to wait out a particularly nasty storm forming south of Greenland, the next transit point on her solo circumnavigational trip around the Arctic. 

She'll resume her trip at the bearing she took as she crossed south of the Arctic Circle before landing in Grimsey. She didn't go all that far south of the Circle, however - it actually runs through Grimsey Island, and on her day off Sunday, Hibbert was able to cross north of the Circle on land during a walk she took that day.

She will sail past the northwest corner of Iceland and then turn south to pass beneath Greenland's Cape Favel. She will keep an eye on the forecast and monitor a low-pressure system with 40-50+ knot winds and huge seas building up and moving around Southern Greenland. Cape Favel is not an area to take lightly even in the best of conditions, with strong currents and icebergs to contend with. The Yeva will have to stay well over 100 miles offshore to avoid the ice, but that will mean there will be nowhere to hide from heavy winds and high seas should those conditions arise. She's timing her trip over Iceland right now with an eye on the forecast to reduce the chance of encountering monster seas off Favel.