Expedition Logbooks and Blogs
In 1995, Pelagic together with Gary Jobson's Sailing to Climb in Antarctica Expedition pioneered the first illustrated and daily reported website logbook from a small vessel in Antarctica. With 15 years expertise in this field we can provide turnkey solutions to your expedition website requirements including site design, developing and authoring educational content and consultancy on communications requirements. See below for the logbooks of some of our expeditions.
Way South - Blog by Laura Parish first mate on board Pelagic Australis
Also see Chris Harris' blog from Pelagic
Antarctica Feb 2011 - Tim Barker's Blog from his Antarctic trip
Antarctica Feb 2010 - Mount Scott and and Mount Shackleton sailing to climb expedition
Skip’s story of his February ‘Ice With Everything’ charter with his Swiss Italian friends. This was another classic ‘sailing to climb’ expedition and proved a viable option for competent climbers to our normal 21 day Antarctic cruise.
Delivery and RYA Training Trip Chile to Cape Town May - June 2009
Read an account in pdf form from Winter 2010 RYA magazine on the trip from Tierra del Fuego to Cape Town
See Bill Cabeen's Shutterfly Book of a BeagleChannel Cape Horn Trip - Apr 2008
Preview this book of Bill Cabeen's Apr 2008 trip online and order the book from Shutterfly.
Metolius South Georgia Expedition Nov - Dec 2006
See link above to read Tor Lundgren's report in pdf form on the Metolius Explorers Club expedition to South Georgia. The Metolius South Georgia Expedition traversed the overland passage of South Georgia first made by Shackleton in 1917. It also explored the area around Larsen Harbor, including the approaches to Mt. Sabatier and several of the smaller peaks in the vicinity. The expedition captured a great deal of still and video footage of some of the rarely visited interior portions of South Georgia, from which a document film (“the Metolius South Georgia Expedition”) was produced. Also see pdf of CCA News Letter 2008 describing the same trip.
Pelagic
Australis attempts the Northwest Passage July August 2004
One hundred years after the the first successful transit of the Northwest
Passage by Roald Amundsen onboard Gjoa, Pelagic Australis began her attempt to
transit the Northwest Passage in Greenland on 25 July.
Also see pdf of CCA
News Letter 2006 covering the same trip
Breaking the Ice is an international non-profit organization, established by passionate individuals and business professionals from around the world. Their mission is to inspire people to transform conflicts from enmity into trust and mutual respect. Breaking the Ice holds an annual flagship event, which aims to send the message of hope, trust and harmony to the world. To learn more about this project and an account of the first of these expeditions which took place in Antarctica on board both Pelagics see www.breaking-the-ice.de
Read Skip's account in the CCA News 2005 of 4 Palestinians and 4 Israelis with one goal on the Breaking the Ice Project
See the Pelagic Climbing Diary for an overview of climbing expeditions mounted over the nd also visit the sites below :
Mission Antarctica Logbook 1999
Use this link to follow reports from Pelagic's voyage as support vessel for Robert Swan's Mission Antarctica a project to clean up the Russian Base at Bellingshausen on King George Island
Logbook 1997
View daily log reports, 2 Jan - early March 1997, from Pelagic's expedition to Antarctica and South Georgia, escorting the Irish South Aris expedition to recreate Shackleton's 800 mile journey in a 23 foot boat from Elephant Island to South Georgia. These reports cover the historical background and natural history aspects as well as the expedition itself. They will be of interest to schools and home education users who may wish to use the logbook as a Geography and Natural History teaching aid.