80 NORTH - Sailing On Top Of The World

Where in the world is Svalbard!? It took some investigating from these warm weather sailors to actually find out. The Crew of SV Delos flies into the high arctic and meets up with their new friends from SV Isbjorn. But before setting sail, they must get guns to protect themselves from polar bears, and provision enough food and liquor to hold them over in freezing temperatures for three weeks.

Our sailors quickly learn that the Arctic can change in the blink of a walrus' eye. The crew finds a huddle of gargantuan walrus and learns first hand about their gnarly smells and sounds. After a not so pleasant encounter with a cruise ship, SV Isbjorn makes her way over to a massive calving glacier where she is endangered by a tidal ice flow that they now must navigate out of!

The crew attempts to navigate SV Isbjorn out of an ice flow that could easily sink her to the bottom of the anchorage, and somehow has fun doing so. Their survival is rewarded with a visit from a polar bear mother and her young cub, who discover a thawed out whale carcass. The day of insanity continues when Beluga whales appear on the horizon just long enough to launch the drones!

With drones launched and a hydrophone in the water the crew realizes why Beluga whales are known as the canaries of the sea. After 3 weeks of 8 people living on a 48 ft. boat our sailors reflect on the pros and cons of sharing a small space, after sailing to 80 North, a place that the Vikings call The End of the Ocean and they complete the adventure with a polar plunge next to a Glacier.