Yeva Update

It's Day 72 of Ella Hibbert's five-month trip around the Arctic Ocean. As of yesterday, the Yeva has completed 3,837 of approximately 9,928 planned miles. The actual length will be dependent of the actual route taken through the rest of the Northwest Passage and around those islands north of Siberia in the Kara and Laptev Seas.    

The Yeva is currently in the Lambert Channel just to the north of the Canadian mainland and south of Lambert Island, Nunavut. Once it emerges from the Channel, it will be entering Dolphin & Union Strait between the mainland and the massive Victoria Island. 

Tamara Klink is currently some 80 or so miles ahead of Hibbert in the NWP.  The Sardinha 2 is nearing the mouth of the Amundsen Gulf between the mainland, Banks Island, and the westernmost parts of Victoria Island.

But it's not a race. Both sailors are on different missions with different itineraries. Hibbert and the Yeva are attempting the first-ever solo circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean in a single season, while Klink and the Sardinha 2 are on a long-term mission of self-sufficiency alone in the Arctic (she spent last winter alone in her boat in Greenland). It's just a mere coincidence that they're both in the Northwest Passage at the same time.