Lisa set sail from Albany on the 21st February 2022 on her second attempt to circumnavigate Antarctica and break the world record. She must beat Russian explorer and adventurer, Fedor Konyukhov’s time of 102 days. So far she is on track to break that record. You can follow Lisa Blair’s progress via her live tracker: https://lisablairsailstheworld.com/tracker
Here’s some words from her live blog:
I was sitting in the navigation station filling in the log from the gybe when I could hear the pitter-patter of what sounded like rain, but it sounded a little off and little hollow. It was different enough for me to get up and see why. I looked out the hatch and the decks of Climate Action Now were coated with a thin covering of little, tiny balls of ice. Not quite hail but not quite snow. I am assuming it would be labelled as sleet. I got giggly with excitement as this was something new and different. I stood at the hatch and watched it fall. I checked my temperature gauge, it was now reading 1.5 degrees Celsius. Wow that is cold. As I watched the sleet settled down and started to change and before my eyes, I started to see snowflakes blowing around. Ha it was snowing, very lightly but I am calling it. It snowed, and I was so excited about it.
The squall blew over but the next two also dumped a mixture of sleet and snow and the temperature dropped a little more down to 1.3 degrees Celsius. I promptly went and heated up my hot water bottle and shoved it down inside my Musto Mid layers because, burr its cold out here. I am expecting the full force of the storm to start building tonight and so it’s likely I will be hove to by this time tomorrow so I am going to keep trying to get some more rest.
