According to her online tracker, as of 10:00 am Greenland time, Capt. Ella Hibbert and the Yeva have left Nuuk and are once again at sea.
The Yeva pulled into Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, about five days ago, the shipboard AIS not working and the cabin's heater out. The parts had been shipped to Nuuk, about the only place in Greenland one can ship to in a reasonable amount of time, and once at port, Hibbert began the repairs and replacements. It took a couple of days to fix the heater, and then a few more for the AIS to arrive and get installed, but with everything now working and after waiting one additional day for a storm to pass, they're once again at sea.
Her equipment problems began near the start of the voyage in the Norwegian Sea when a huge wave filled the Yeva's cabin with salt water. The water got inside of the heater and blocked its exhaust pipe and corroded the AIS terminals and electrical connections. It took a lot in DIY ingenuity and not a few tech-support calls to get everything back on line and working again but it appears that all systems are now operational and a "go" for the voyage to continue.
Hibbert will cross the Davis Strait and sail past the north coast of Baffin Island. From there, she will sail the Northwest Passage to the Beaufort Sea in her attempt to complete the first solo single-season circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean.
Update: For reasons as of yet unknown, she turned around and as of 4:00 pm Greenland time is back in port at Nuuk. Weather? Equipment? We'll see!
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