2019 NorthWest Passage
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1- A follow up of my previous two gofundme campaigns 2017-2018.
Hello again to my supporters.
I am Olivier, builder and skipper of “Breskell”, Together, let ‘s do first a quick follow-up on my past two “gofundme” campaigns, my use of your money, my yesterday’s promises: “Witnessing the fabled North West passage from the deck of a wooden sailboat and documenting the effects of the global warming on the Arctic”.
During the Arctic summer of 2017, I sailed Breskell from the Chesapeake bay to Greenland via Newfoundland. I stored my boat in Sisimiut on Greenland 's west coast, north of the Arctic circle.
With your precious help, the following Arctic summer of 2018, my goal was to sail from Sisimiut in Greenland to Disko bay. After crossing Baffin Bay, I was planning to reach Lancaster sound and finally go through the North West Passage. And Sail Breskell” home to Port Townsend was my ultimate goal.
I was unable, in 2018, to go through the North West Passage. I tried as hard as possible not to deceive you, my generous supporters. I even punched two good sized holes in my hull trying to climb this “sailor’s Himalaya”. I was not the only one left on the side of the trail. No boat went through the passage that year. The Canadian Coast Guard even prohibited sailing all areas above 70 degrees North. Too much ice plugging or drifting around the passage.
One of our fellow sailor tried too hard. She sunk right there. The crew was later lifted out of some floating iceberg by the Coast Guard.
Disappointed but safe, I, with my entire crew, decided to back down East. We sailed all the way to Newfoundland.
. With my team, I learned during these two years to offer you an attractive story of the daily huge challenges facing the mariner sailing by himself in the northern latitudes. We shared also with you the delightful pictures of our sailing adventures. I had another privilege. I welcomed again on my crew Dominic Joyce, a talented and intrepid film-maker from London UK. Have you watched his documentary" Disko"?
My high latitude journey supported this claim. Dominic demonstrated also what an outstanding cineast he is. His “Disko” documentary received multiple awards, from Maine to Germany or Italy. Wait now for our second documentary made during our “failed” 2018 attempt. Its name? “Breskell” naturally! Through the lens of an artist, you will discover the beauty of the Arctic . You will even witness first hand one dramatic incident. Two life threatening holes I managed to punch through the hull of my beloved boat during a storm up there.
Dominic new soon to be released « Breskell » is even better that his first multi-awarded “Disko”.
I owe you, my supporters another confidence.
During my first Arctic journey, as promised, I started quietly to testify about global warming. A lot of glaciers were not reaching anymore the waterfront . One of the most famous, the “Ilulisat glacier”, had retreated more than 3.7 miles since 2004! We encountered pebbled beaches and safe anchorages in place of walls of ice crashing into frigid waters. My son or our daughters and all of your grandchildren will be deprived in just one single generation of these natural wonders of our planet Earth. The fragility of arctic wildlife in front of the incoming climate changes will make the magnificent mother polar bear we met last summer the next mammoth disappearance of this century. And this “discovery” started to make me really, really, angry!
With your past contributions, PRIVATE DONORS and CORPORATE SPONSORS, you made possible this extraordinary sailing journey of discoveries through the Arctic in 2017-2018. Our two exceptional public documentaries, my blog and its 8000 viewers are my personal acknowledgement for your initial help.
They stand also as my personal thanks to all of you for supporting my dream with my special gratitude to PATAGONIA. Without their exceptional northern outfits, we would probably be dead by now. As simple as that!
2- Let 's talk about 2019 with my new GOFUNDME campaign .
North West Passage with a sailboat in 2018? Only by transforming “Breskell” into an arctic sled hauled on ice by a team of husky dogs... I did not make it. A set back? Yes! This didn’t mean I had to give it up...
I had to try again.
I build my Arctic expedition like I built my boat. One penny at a time, one drop of epoxy after another.
In 2019, we will cross over the last floating hurdles before returning “Breskell” home to Port Townsend. Let me reaffirm again that I am not an adventurer. I don’t need a rush of adrenalin for barely escaping death in some harrowing adventure for my Facebook followers. The front page of newspapers doesn’t give purpose to my life. I am just an hardcore sailor, a boat-builder. I simply bring home my hand-made yellow wooden boat enjoying the ride!
I want to add also the simple testimony of an honest witness you helped send north. I plan to join my voice and my own “ Himalaya’s climbing” to the concert of all those deeply worried by the present climate changes. I saw it first hand at work in the Arctic during my past two summers there. Climate change has influenced me personally. Some of our political leaders deny this reality. This voluntary stupidity makes me really angry now. With your support , I intend today to be another noisy and restless ambassador for the right of the next generations to enjoy the northern wonders of our planet. A planet we have borrowed in good order from our ancestors and that we need to preserve for our kids. Thirty years from now and they will have no idea what the North Pole was about . All kind of boats will go through without anymore restrictions . Sad!
If I belong to the old traditional sailing and boat building school, I discovered last year the importance of all the modern communications medias. To the best of my new abilities, I plan to use them today to alert and mobilize generations of new outdoor enthusiasts to the clear and imminent dangers that our beloved “ocean planet” faces.
Thank to you, my blog, Breskell.com is today coming to maturity.
Your renewed support will help me report the “Breskell” daily position via a “SPOT” linked to my blog. An added map positioning done each day by my team will illustrate our safe progress toward home.
Some intimate details of our daily life on board will be regularly added . Pictures taken on a daily basis will be joined to an even more lively “Breskell” diary.
I expect also in 2019 to increase our visibility with added followers on my neglected Facebook.
Based on my past blog and our two documentaries, I intend also to interest some local, national and international medias, sharing with their readers the story of our safe home return. I already have an interview scheduled with Radio Canada next summer. We had an article in the Telegram NF and one of our story appeared in the last “Voile Magazine” in France.
With an “one hundred percent guaranty" to make it through ?
Certitude doesn’t exist playing with Mother Nature up there. You know it. First, before leaving Newfoundland, I have to patch my wounded boat myself. Don’t worry. I know how to epoxy my broken hull. With your indispensable support, our knowledge and experiences from our previous two Arctic seasons I plan also to better outfit “Breskell” for our challenging journey ahead.
For added safety features , an aluminum shield protecting the bow from the ice and a stainless steel stem working as a spur are already in the making.
Breskell, my wooden boat, will sail tomorrow safely through it. She will bring another clear proof that global warming is just behind the next melting iceberg.
ANOTHER CLEAR SIGNAL THAT’S IT IS TIME TO TAKE EVEN MORE RADICAL ACTIONS TO:
MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN.
As usual , we will display logos with all private donor’s names on Breskell if you choose to help us with our dream of a safe ice transit and with your own awareness about climate change.
Donate whatever you can to this GoFundMe appeal.
Any dontion over $150 on demand will receive one of the 3 photos poster like this (24" x 16")
Once again thank you so much for supporting me and my crew
Olivier, builder and skipper of “Breskell”, the yellow wooden boat.
Hello again to my supporters.
I am Olivier, builder and skipper of “Breskell”, Together, let ‘s do first a quick follow-up on my past two “gofundme” campaigns, my use of your money, my yesterday’s promises: “Witnessing the fabled North West passage from the deck of a wooden sailboat and documenting the effects of the global warming on the Arctic”.
During the Arctic summer of 2017, I sailed Breskell from the Chesapeake bay to Greenland via Newfoundland. I stored my boat in Sisimiut on Greenland 's west coast, north of the Arctic circle.
With your precious help, the following Arctic summer of 2018, my goal was to sail from Sisimiut in Greenland to Disko bay. After crossing Baffin Bay, I was planning to reach Lancaster sound and finally go through the North West Passage. And Sail Breskell” home to Port Townsend was my ultimate goal.
I was unable, in 2018, to go through the North West Passage. I tried as hard as possible not to deceive you, my generous supporters. I even punched two good sized holes in my hull trying to climb this “sailor’s Himalaya”. I was not the only one left on the side of the trail. No boat went through the passage that year. The Canadian Coast Guard even prohibited sailing all areas above 70 degrees North. Too much ice plugging or drifting around the passage.
One of our fellow sailor tried too hard. She sunk right there. The crew was later lifted out of some floating iceberg by the Coast Guard.
Disappointed but safe, I, with my entire crew, decided to back down East. We sailed all the way to Newfoundland.
. With my team, I learned during these two years to offer you an attractive story of the daily huge challenges facing the mariner sailing by himself in the northern latitudes. We shared also with you the delightful pictures of our sailing adventures. I had another privilege. I welcomed again on my crew Dominic Joyce, a talented and intrepid film-maker from London UK. Have you watched his documentary" Disko"?
My high latitude journey supported this claim. Dominic demonstrated also what an outstanding cineast he is. His “Disko” documentary received multiple awards, from Maine to Germany or Italy. Wait now for our second documentary made during our “failed” 2018 attempt. Its name? “Breskell” naturally! Through the lens of an artist, you will discover the beauty of the Arctic . You will even witness first hand one dramatic incident. Two life threatening holes I managed to punch through the hull of my beloved boat during a storm up there.
Dominic new soon to be released « Breskell » is even better that his first multi-awarded “Disko”.
I owe you, my supporters another confidence.
During my first Arctic journey, as promised, I started quietly to testify about global warming. A lot of glaciers were not reaching anymore the waterfront . One of the most famous, the “Ilulisat glacier”, had retreated more than 3.7 miles since 2004! We encountered pebbled beaches and safe anchorages in place of walls of ice crashing into frigid waters. My son or our daughters and all of your grandchildren will be deprived in just one single generation of these natural wonders of our planet Earth. The fragility of arctic wildlife in front of the incoming climate changes will make the magnificent mother polar bear we met last summer the next mammoth disappearance of this century. And this “discovery” started to make me really, really, angry!
With your past contributions, PRIVATE DONORS and CORPORATE SPONSORS, you made possible this extraordinary sailing journey of discoveries through the Arctic in 2017-2018. Our two exceptional public documentaries, my blog and its 8000 viewers are my personal acknowledgement for your initial help.
They stand also as my personal thanks to all of you for supporting my dream with my special gratitude to PATAGONIA. Without their exceptional northern outfits, we would probably be dead by now. As simple as that!
2- Let 's talk about 2019 with my new GOFUNDME campaign .
North West Passage with a sailboat in 2018? Only by transforming “Breskell” into an arctic sled hauled on ice by a team of husky dogs... I did not make it. A set back? Yes! This didn’t mean I had to give it up...
I had to try again.
I build my Arctic expedition like I built my boat. One penny at a time, one drop of epoxy after another.
In 2019, we will cross over the last floating hurdles before returning “Breskell” home to Port Townsend. Let me reaffirm again that I am not an adventurer. I don’t need a rush of adrenalin for barely escaping death in some harrowing adventure for my Facebook followers. The front page of newspapers doesn’t give purpose to my life. I am just an hardcore sailor, a boat-builder. I simply bring home my hand-made yellow wooden boat enjoying the ride!
I want to add also the simple testimony of an honest witness you helped send north. I plan to join my voice and my own “ Himalaya’s climbing” to the concert of all those deeply worried by the present climate changes. I saw it first hand at work in the Arctic during my past two summers there. Climate change has influenced me personally. Some of our political leaders deny this reality. This voluntary stupidity makes me really angry now. With your support , I intend today to be another noisy and restless ambassador for the right of the next generations to enjoy the northern wonders of our planet. A planet we have borrowed in good order from our ancestors and that we need to preserve for our kids. Thirty years from now and they will have no idea what the North Pole was about . All kind of boats will go through without anymore restrictions . Sad!
If I belong to the old traditional sailing and boat building school, I discovered last year the importance of all the modern communications medias. To the best of my new abilities, I plan to use them today to alert and mobilize generations of new outdoor enthusiasts to the clear and imminent dangers that our beloved “ocean planet” faces.
Thank to you, my blog, Breskell.com is today coming to maturity.
Your renewed support will help me report the “Breskell” daily position via a “SPOT” linked to my blog. An added map positioning done each day by my team will illustrate our safe progress toward home.
Some intimate details of our daily life on board will be regularly added . Pictures taken on a daily basis will be joined to an even more lively “Breskell” diary.
I expect also in 2019 to increase our visibility with added followers on my neglected Facebook.
Based on my past blog and our two documentaries, I intend also to interest some local, national and international medias, sharing with their readers the story of our safe home return. I already have an interview scheduled with Radio Canada next summer. We had an article in the Telegram NF and one of our story appeared in the last “Voile Magazine” in France.
With an “one hundred percent guaranty" to make it through ?
Certitude doesn’t exist playing with Mother Nature up there. You know it. First, before leaving Newfoundland, I have to patch my wounded boat myself. Don’t worry. I know how to epoxy my broken hull. With your indispensable support, our knowledge and experiences from our previous two Arctic seasons I plan also to better outfit “Breskell” for our challenging journey ahead.
For added safety features , an aluminum shield protecting the bow from the ice and a stainless steel stem working as a spur are already in the making.
Breskell, my wooden boat, will sail tomorrow safely through it. She will bring another clear proof that global warming is just behind the next melting iceberg.
ANOTHER CLEAR SIGNAL THAT’S IT IS TIME TO TAKE EVEN MORE RADICAL ACTIONS TO:
MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN.
As usual , we will display logos with all private donor’s names on Breskell if you choose to help us with our dream of a safe ice transit and with your own awareness about climate change.
Donate whatever you can to this GoFundMe appeal.
Any dontion over $150 on demand will receive one of the 3 photos poster like this (24" x 16")
Once again thank you so much for supporting me and my crew
Olivier, builder and skipper of “Breskell”, the yellow wooden boat.
Organizer
Olivier Huin
Organizer
Port Hadlock, WA
