2nd Voyage Summary

The voyage was first conceived as a passage from Sydney, Australia to Falmouth, UK via the North West PassageThe Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. More here., with a stop over on Devon Island to meet up with a group of NASA scientists to witness a total solar eclipse on 1 August 2008. The scientists are part of the Haughton-Mars Project, hence Berrimilla’s blog was titled ‘Berrimilla Down-Under-Mars”

Berrimilla’s second circumnavigation started on April 10th 2008. She sailed direct to Alaska from Sydney and then via the North West PassageThe Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. More here. to Falmouth, UK where she was laid up for the winter. The original intention was to return north of Russia to the Bering Strait – the NE Passage – but the permit to do so arrived to late to complete the voyage safely before the winter freeze. Berrimilla sailed her second FastnetFastnet Race: 608 mile biennial race from Cowes, UK, Isle of Wight, to the Fastnet Rock off Southern Ireland, finishing in Plymouth. Berrimilla took part in 2005 and 2009. race and returned to Australia via Lisbon, Cape Town and the Kerguelen Islands.

She returned to Australia via the Cape of Good Hope in 2010.

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