Meanwhile, in Alaska

 

I can honestly say I don't know what the hell Tamara Klink is doing.

She arrived back in Homer, Alaska last June and spent a month getting her ship, the Sardinha 2, out of dry dock, repainted, re-primed, and ready to make the long return trip back to Brazil. She took it for a few test trips around Kachemak Bay, and then on July 1, began her return odyssey.

Or did she? Any logical route from Homer, on the southern coast of Alaska, to Atlantic-facing Brazil, either goes south around Tierra del Fuego and then north up the eastern side of South America, or south and through the Panama Canal. Since Klink is an experienced Antarctic sailor, if even an Antarctic enthusiast, it seems unlikely she would go the Canal route. In fact, she most likely will take the Sardinha to Tierra del Fuego and establish a base in either a Chilean or Argentinian harbor for future Antarctic adventures.  

But either way, the logical course is south, hugging the west coast of North America, and then, after Baja California, further out to sea and straight for Cape Horn.

But that isn't what she's doing. She's actually sailed west along the Aleutian Peninsula and is presently harbored in King Cove, tantalizingly close to False Pass, the gateway to the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean, through which she passed last year on her way to Homer. I don't see any advantage in starting her voyage south to Tierra del Fuego from further west in the Aleutians. She posted that the fickle winds made her change course several times a day, but it seems unlikely that she's just letting the wind take her willy-nilly some 550 miles off course. 

Could she be planning the audacious and sailing the Northeast Passage over Russian and Scandinavia, like fellow Arctic adventurer Ella Hibbert, and into the Atlantic, and then south to Brazil for the most insane route from Point A (Homer) to Point B (Brazil) imaginable? 

Or is she just poking around the Alaska coast during the summer season before heading south to the tropics, and then on to South America during the antipodal summer?          

So far, she hasn't said.