Yeva, Underway Again

Good news: the gale has blown over and both the Yeva and the Sardinha 2 have left harbor and are both sailing once again. 

The ice apparently didn't manage to block Pierce Bay, and Ella Hibbert was able to sail the Yeva out of the inlet early this morning and is currently sailing northwest toward Cape Parry.

In just the last hour or so (it's noon, Eastern daylight time), Tamara Klink sailed the Sardinha 2 out of the harbor she found on Booth Island and is sailing due west toward Cape Bathurst.

After the storm, the tongue of old, year-round sea ice blocking the Amundsen Gulf is about 20 miles off the coast of Cape Bathurst. There's still partial coverage of floes of new ice in the channel between the cape and the old sea ice, but close to the coast there's only about 20% ice coverage. Skilled sailors like Hibbert and Klink should be able to find a path through that, and with her lead, Klink will probably be running point for Hibbert, scouting out the best route. 

After rounding the Cape, there's currently open water all the way to Alaska and beyond to the Chukchi Sea between North America and Russia.