daveman
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BABOUSHKA calls it quits on their trek to the North Pole by sailing catamaran
I'm glad they were rescued, but it always makes a funny sound when agenda collides with reality.
September 3, 2013
Sebastian Vincent and Babushka were recovered by the icebreaker Admiral Makarov!
20130903 UPDATE: (Sébastien Roubinet - Accueil)
September 3, 2013
This three days that Sebastien Vincent and triggered their distress beacon. They tried everything they believed it until the last moment, but poor weather conditions present and especially future force them to give up!
Going by their own means is impossible, they were obliged, with great regret, to trigger their tag. They're fine, though vexed.
A Russian icebreaker is on its way from the mainland.
### END UPDATE
French Arctic adventurers end their mission due to bad weather at 82 13.97N, -171 47.09W
Sébastien Roubinet and Vincent Berthet in their catamaran 'Baboushka'
Two French men, Sébastien Roubinet and Vincent Berthet , who set out on a trek to the North Pole in July in a wind catamaran, announced today that they are blocked in the Arctic. A Russian ice-breaker has been dispatched to help them.
Sébastien and Vincent set off their warning flares. They did everything they could, they believed in themselves right up until the last moment, but with the bad weather conditions now, and more expected to come, they were forced to abandon their mission said a press release posted on the Facebook page The Artctic Track (La Voie du Pôle https://www.facebook.com/î!/Lavoiedupole)
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Roubinet, 39 and Berthet, 32 set out to the Arctic at the beginning of July, just at the peak of the summer thaw.
Babouchka (grandmother in Russian). Babouchka is half catamaran, half sail wagon, shes able to move across the sea and ice.
The goal was to make it to Spitzberg in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, via the North Pole and observe the state of melting ice that has gone on over the past years.
Sebastian Vincent and Babushka were recovered by the icebreaker Admiral Makarov!
20130903 UPDATE: (Sébastien Roubinet - Accueil)
September 3, 2013
This three days that Sebastien Vincent and triggered their distress beacon. They tried everything they believed it until the last moment, but poor weather conditions present and especially future force them to give up!
Going by their own means is impossible, they were obliged, with great regret, to trigger their tag. They're fine, though vexed.
A Russian icebreaker is on its way from the mainland.
### END UPDATE
French Arctic adventurers end their mission due to bad weather at 82 13.97N, -171 47.09W
Sébastien Roubinet and Vincent Berthet in their catamaran 'Baboushka'
Two French men, Sébastien Roubinet and Vincent Berthet , who set out on a trek to the North Pole in July in a wind catamaran, announced today that they are blocked in the Arctic. A Russian ice-breaker has been dispatched to help them.
Sébastien and Vincent set off their warning flares. They did everything they could, they believed in themselves right up until the last moment, but with the bad weather conditions now, and more expected to come, they were forced to abandon their mission said a press release posted on the Facebook page The Artctic Track (La Voie du Pôle https://www.facebook.com/î!/Lavoiedupole)
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Roubinet, 39 and Berthet, 32 set out to the Arctic at the beginning of July, just at the peak of the summer thaw.
Babouchka (grandmother in Russian). Babouchka is half catamaran, half sail wagon, shes able to move across the sea and ice.
The goal was to make it to Spitzberg in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, via the North Pole and observe the state of melting ice that has gone on over the past years.
I'm glad they were rescued, but it always makes a funny sound when agenda collides with reality.