Tiama spent the northern summer slowly making her way south. First through the Standing Mast Route on the inland water ways of the Netherlands, then down the southern coast of England, crossing the Bay of Biscay to spend most of the winter months on the east coast of Spain and Portugal.
Amsterdam to Spitsbergen via Norway Land if Ice and snow and Polar bears, what a place, endless series of Fiords and Glaciers, lots of wildlife and really nice people onboard for the whole time We also met up with a very old friend who has been working on a research station there for 25 years,…
Tiama’s skipper Henk Haazen spend 6 weeks as the mate on the 73 foot expedition sailing vessel Pelagic Australia in an attempt to sail true the North west Passage over the Top of Canada and Alaska from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, due to unusual heavy Ice conditions we had to turn back half way true, it was a scouting mission, laying the ground work to take Tiama through this passage in the near future.
February 1999 – 5 week charter from Ushuaia to the Antarctic Peninsula, acting as a logistics support vessel for the Young Australian Antarctic Expedition during their successful attempt to climb Pilchner Peak in the Antarctic Peninsula.
We have had the busiest Souther summer season to date, working with 2 BBC film crews in the sub-Antarctic to film the mating ritual of the Bullers Albatross when the couple first meet after not seeing each other for a year at sea plus the extreme sight and noise of thousands of small Sooty Sheer…
We had another long and intersting season working in the NZ Sub Antarctic, starting with 20 day charter to the Snares working with the Salvins albatross and then a one month long survey of the Auckland islands looking for yellow Eyed Penguins, this was the fist time such a survey was carried out, the Auckland islands are the last bastion for these endangered species this was early…
A 3 month charter along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia starting from Cairns to Sydney, diving, underwater filming, and campaigning against a new shale oil development on the edge of the World Heritage site.