I've started planning for my solo voyage to Sturge Island. My Dad says I can take the Argo II, one of the small vessels our foundation owns. It's perfect for a solo voyage; small enough for one person to handle, but big and rugged enough to make the trip. It's also pretty fast, so it won't take me forever. This isn't actually the Argo II (no pictures allowed of Macker Foundation vessels) but it's a trawler yacht by Mirage that's pretty close. Actually I think the Mirage yacht is probably a little nicer. But the Argo II is proven; it's been around the world twice already.
For such a long voyage -- Greenland to Antarctica and probably back -- I'm going to have to plan on some resupply and refitting stops. That's what I'm working on now. Sometimes on the Scopritore IV we get resupplied by the Deception, but I'd rather plan on visiting some interesting places along the way. The Azores, for example. And I have to decide whether to head for the east coast of South America and go through the Strait of Magellan, or for west Africa and Cape Horn.
This is pretty fun. It makes me wonder how much I really want that job. Which I still haven't heard about, by the way. I just thought, though; maybe they're worried that I'm so far away in Greenland that I wouldn't be able to join them. If I don't hear back, I'll just contact them when I'm closer. They said their expedition is scheduled for 2010, so the timing seems like it might work.
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