Yeva, Back in the Passage Again

 

Tamara Klink and the Sardinha 2 (I finally learned the correct spelling of the ship's name) took the long route around Victoria Strait, hugging the west coast of the Boothia Peninsula and sailing south of King William Island. She has entered the Dease Strait between Victoria Island and the Canadian mainland and is currently sailing west, blowing right past Cambridge Bay. 

Ella Hibbert and the Yeva sailed straight through the icy waters of Victoria Strait, arriving at Cambridge Bay on Saturday night. She made a short VIP guest appearance on a National Geographic cruise ship there and has just (like, literally in the past 15 minutes) left the harbor. It's still not a race, but this is a sports blog and Hibbert's now some 75 miles behind Klink and the Sardinha 2. 

There's still some 375 miles or so left to the waters between the massive Victoria Island and the mainland. The water goes by various names - Dease Strait, Coronation Gulf, and Dolphin & Union Strait - and from there the Northwest Passage runs about another 1,200 miles along the coast of the Arctic Ocean north of Canada and Alaska.