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Sailing the Southern Ocean to South Georgia Island

Southern Ocean shipwreck: *Windora* pounded by surf after she dragged in hurricane-force winds onto a reef in South Georgia

Wrecked on a Southern Ocean rock. Revived at the foot of Shackleton’s grave. This is the journal of helping my friends Phil and Lynda Christieson sail their wooden ketch Windora south from the Falkland Islands, through the icebergs to South Georgia Island — one of the most remote and unforgiving stretches of ocean on earth.

Posts are in chronological order, oldest first.

South Georgia Island: Not the One Near Atlanta

Recently, I got a message from friends there was a boat headed to South Georgia. There was a spare berth aboard. They wanted me to come along. “Sure!” I said…
Sheep Shearing in the Falkland Islands: A Sailor Goes Ashore

I know. I told you I was sailing a wooden sailboat from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia. Somewhere along the way, I ended up going from my sea berth…
South Georgia Shipwreck: When Windora Hit the Rocks in Hurricane Winds

Fighting for her life. Hurricane force winds threaten to splinter the ketch Windora‘s 40 year old wood hull. She dragged her anchor and wound up on a submerged rock in…
Sailing from the Falklands to South Georgia: Putting to Sea aboard Windora

The day has come to put to sea. Tomorrow I sail from Stanley, in the Falkland Islands, to South Georgia Island, off Antarctica. I’ll be traveling aboard Windora. She belongs…

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