A number of you have been asking about our boat CATRYN and the purpose of our sailing trip.

 

CATRYN is a production motorsailer built in the USA in 2007 by Island Packet Yachts. We have made some modifications to strengthen her bow and have added a watermaker and satellite communications equipment. She has a range of about 2500 miles under power as well as a good sailing rig off the wind. We have dry food stores and supplies on board sufficient for a crew of 4 for about 12 months although we would hope to be home long before then!

 

We are a small, private expedition, purely for adventure. We have no commercial sponsorship, no paying passengers, no ‘raising awareness’ agenda, nor are we part of any organised event. However we do have some artistic and scientific objectives to keep us occupied. Voyaging in this remote Arctic region we hope to travel along the routes forged by explorers from earlier generations, but for us of course the risks are far fewer. Today we have satellite phones, weather forecasts, rescue services and generally less ice to navigate. We will enjoy our contact with the indigenous people of the Arctic, the magnificent scenery and it’s special wildlife.

 

We’re still on schedule to leave ABERDYFI on 15 June and hope to arrive in NUUK, Greenland by 20 July. Thereafter much will depend on the ice and weather conditions that lie ahead.

 

More to follow . . . . . . . . .

 

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Mae rhai wedi gofyn am ein cwch CATRYN ac am nod y daith. Wel cwch hwylio/modur ydy CATRYN, a adeiladwyd yn yr Unol Daleithiau yn 2007 gan Island Packet Yachts. Rydym wedi cryfhau y blaen ac ychwanegu peiriant dwr a chyfarpar cyswllt lloeren yn ogystal a nifer o fan newidiadau eraill. Gall y cwch 2500 o filltirodd gyda phwer, ac mae ganddi rig hwylio galluog. Mae gennym ddigon o fwyd sylfaenol i griw o bedwar am 12 mis, ond rydym yn gobeithio yn ol adref cyn hynny!

 

Rydyn yn daith fach breiat, ar gyfer antur yn unig. Nid oes gennym unrhyw nawdd masnachol, dim twithwyr sy’n talu a dim agenda ‘codi ymwybodiaeth’. Ond mae gennym rai amcanion artistig a gwyddonol.

 

Bydd hwylio yn y rhan anghysbell hwn o’r Arctig, yn ein galluogii rannu profiadau rhai o anturiaethwyr y gorffenol. Mae’r peryglon yn llai i ni wrth gwrs. Y dyddiau hyn mae gennym ffonau lloeren, rhagolygon y tywydd, gwasanaethau achub ac yn gyffredinol, llai o rew. Byddwn yn mwynhau ein cyssylltiad a’r bobl frodorol, y golygfeydd godidig a’r bywyd gwyllt arbennig.

 

Rydym ni’n dal yn bwriadu ABERDYFI ar y 15fed Mehefin, a gobeithio bod yn NUUK, Ynys Las, erbyn 20fed Gorffennaf. Wedi hynny bydd lawwer yn dibynnu ar amodau’r rhew a’r tywydd, a thipyn o lwc hefyd!

 

Mwy i ddilyn ...................................................................