Author Archives: Peter Rossin
Antarctica Article
Motor Boating and Yachting magazine recently published an article I wrote about our Antarctic adventure. You can read a copy here.
Personal Log – Antartica
The following are contemporaneous entries from a personallog that I kept during our adventure. I hope you enjoy: Subject: Jan 21 Update Date: 21 Jan 2019 15:21:07 -0000 From: MCCC5 Greetings from Iron Lady and Grey Wolf cruising side by side at 57 … Continue reading
Antarctica Trip – Track
Thought some might have an interest in the actual GPS track log from Iron Lady’s trip from Chile to Antarctica. The above shows our track leaving from and returning to Puerto Willaims. In it you can see how we actually … Continue reading
Yankee Harobr
We made Yankee Harbor around 0300. Despite being exhausted from the passage, the adrenalin of being in Antarctica kicked in and was not to be denied. A beautiful sunrise highlighted the Gentoo penguin colony as we toasted our arrival with … Continue reading
Icecapades
OK – I have been remiss. I am jumping ahead a bit to Antarctica – Iron Lady’s latest adventure. Will be doing lots of different posts on the Peninsula (including the Drake, Horn and Patagonian Chile), but for starters I … Continue reading
Isabela 1
The Galapagos are several thousand miles behind us, but I never did get any posts up about our time there. Will try to make up for that. Our first port of call was Isabela. After the clearance formalities (which involved … Continue reading
Merry Christmas
We are now home after a cruise down the Chilean fiords. The best part was a trip to the San Rafael glacier. It is the lowest latitude tidewater glacier in the world – and the farthest northern tidewater glacier in … Continue reading
Dinghy Bra
One of the unfortunate things about the Galapagos was that we were severely restricted in terms of what we could do with both Iron Lady and our dinghy. We were first restricted by where we could go without local guides … Continue reading