Hey, now that sports are on a hiatus, remember Tamara Klink? The Brazilian sailor who traversed the Northwest Passage solo last summer (as did British sailor Ella Hibbert in a separate expedition)? We reported on her trip here last summer.
Her boat, the Sardinia, is still drydocked in Nome, Alaska, but last January, Klink joined the crew of the Malizia Explorer and crossed the Drake Passage from Ushuaia, Argentina to Antarctica. She was last in Antarctica some 20 years ago, when she took a series of trips there with her parents and sisters, and the desolate continent traumatized her "with fear, fascination, and concern," and made her wish with all her heart "to one day be a real navigator and return."
Well, she's back and I don't think anyone can say she's not a real sailor now after her solo voyages across the Atlantic, around Greenland, and through the Northwest Passage. For the past month, she and the crew of the Malizia Explorer have been sailing around the Antarctic Peninsula, returning to Ushuaia once and then heading back south, for a total of three crossings (so far) of the Drake. The crew explored, made some deep-water scuba dives, engaged in some research, and generally admired the Antarctic wilderness.
Yesterday, the ship had to take shelter from a storm in Paradise Bay, taking a forced pause until the storm passes and the final journey back home after 22 days at sea.
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