After arriving in Polynesia, the raft was repatriated near Oslo where it is on display in a museum. round the world trip in a non-inhabitable sports catamaran Yvan Bourgnon is embarking on a new challenge, the Northwest Passage, still aboard his sports catamaran. Its route will consist of 3000 miles between Greenland and Alaska, passing through northern Canada, in the middle of the ice, crossing the Beaufort Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the Baffin Sea.
The sailor will be accompanied by a crew member and will set off in the summer of 2016 or 2017, for about 45 days of sailing. The two men will be aboard "Ma Louloute", Yvan Bourgnon's 6 m sports catamaran, with which he had already sailed around the world in 2013 and 2015.
This challenge will be all the more difficult as Ma Louloute is not a habitable catamaran. On his world tour, Yvan slept in a bunk under the stars, but here he will have to adapt to temperatures between -10°C and +5°C. He therefore plans to set up small tents on the benches to sleep in the shelter.
"Ma Louloute", Yvan Bourgnon's sports catamaran
Aboard his 21-foot catamaran, Yvan Bourgnon will have to slalom between the ice cubes and the ice floe, and face multiple dangers (polar bear, falling into icy water, inaccessibility of the area in case of problems...). But above all, he should not miss the starting window since the road is only open for a few days.
