Klink in the Bering

 

It looks like she's actually going to do it. After spending several days in King Cove on the Aleutian Peninsula, sailor Tamara Klink has passed through False Pass and is now heading north across the Bering Sea. 

Her stated mission is to retrieve her sailboat, the Sardinha 2, from its winter storage in Homer, Alaska and take it back to her native Brazil. The problem is that Alaska is north of the Pacific Ocean, and Brazil fronts on the Atlantic. To get to Brazil, she could sail south to the tip of South America, cross the Southern Ocean around Tierra del Fuego, and then head north in the Atlantic and home to Brazil. 

It appears she's not doing that. She's heading north.

She could sail back the way she came - around Alaska, through the Northwest Passage, around Labrador and Newfoundland, the thence south through the Atlantic to Brazil. Or she could sail over Russia and Scandinavia through the so-called Northwest Passage, Elle Hibbert's planned route for this summer, and then down and across the Atlantic from there. There's been no indication yet which way she intends to go.

Speaking of Hibbert, she's gone strangely radio-silent, not posting any updates in over two weeks. Presumably, she's got her sailboat, the Yeva, up and running and is waiting for the ice to clear in the Siberian Sea, which typically is about this time of year.  I hope in these politically fraught times she's not having visa or other entry issues, or somehow lost her enthusiasm for completing her Arctic circumnavigation.