And it was just like an unbelievable experience.

I'd always had a huge engine behind me whenever I was boating.

But all of a sudden there was no noise, just the sound of the wind and then the water splashing up.

And I was immediately converted.

Like that moment that we took off, it was game over.

Greetings from Svalbard, gang's andy here thanks again to lee for publishing these episodes we are let's see it's monday june 18th as i record this we've been hanging out

with the delos gang they had an Airbnb apartment just down on the beach in front of the harbor so

we started filming some stuff with them yesterday. And as I speak, it's like six o'clock in the evening. The sun is shining. It's a beautiful day in the Arctic. And they're just getting ready to move their stuff on board. And we're heading north. So I don't know how long we'll be off the grid, but I have to say so far Spitzbergen, the Svalbard Archipelago, it is absolutely blown our minds. We spent four days down in the south part in a in a fjord called Horn Sund. We've seen our first polar bear already. We were hanging out with a couple walrus. I got to walk around on the pack ice. We had East Bjorn's bow stuck right into the ice.

We've seen seals. We've seen whales. We saw a blue whale. I mean, it's just, it's incredible.

And it's impossible to describe the feeling that you get just being here. I mean, I knew this place was going to be cool. I've only been here a week, but just the scale of the

scenery is kind of mind-blowing, and the fact that it's been very cold. It's actually warm today,

but we've had snow almost every day we're here. Mia was doing a night watch on anchor,

woke up to like an inch or two of snow in the cockpit.

We got to go hiking on a glacier. And just the scale and the remoteness of everything. I mean, there's no rules. It's like the Wild West up here. You can just go wherever you want to and do whatever you want to do. And there's no signs. There's no handrails. There's no, there's no nothing. You're truly on your own. and the further north and the further northeast we get,

just the more extreme that's going to be um so it's been a really spectacular trip so far and

i'm super stoked to see what we're going to get with delos and with james our own ships photographer

um hopefully you guys have seen the the website we have our instagram feed right on the website

and i've been bombing instagram since we have a on internet here in Long Yerbien. But that's going to end in a couple hours, and we'll be off the grid for two or three weeks. I've also been updating the blog, so take a look there. There's a lot of stuff I've written and lots more photos on there. But I'll be back with a full report on what

it was like. I think we'll hopefully record a podcast or two with the Delos gang. And in the meantime,

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