... basically to the, to the week you were on, uh, the Albin Vega going around the Americas, and now I guess this is, like how much does this feel similar versus different? 'Cause you've got a different boat, you've got Starlink, um, you know.

Oh, yeah.

It's definitely different.

Um- I mean, it's, there's a lot more creature comforts on this boat, um, systems, I mean, all sorts of things.

Elven Vega was super-duper basic.

I mean, I didn't even have running water on the Elven Vega.

I didn't even have a sink.

What's your, what's your routine like? Like, and I guess, I mean, you don't have the ice routine in place yet, I guess, but, like, what's a typical day look like for you?

know.

Yeah, yeah.

I like the chart plotter.

Don't get me wrong.

I like everything else.

It's just this radar.

It just doesn't have the ability to get rid of sea clutter very well.

Ohio, Toledo, and Buffalo.

so for the listeners you can't see this is he's showing me on both sides of the mast and the galley and in the saloon are two huge wooden boxes And Matt says it's 240 gallons of diesel in those two boxes.

Yeah.

So, you know, the whole the whole trip had to be, you know, you had to kind of read.

I had to come at this situation to.

To try to make sure that with all the light winds that are going to exist within the Arctic.

that I can continue to go forward.

Because in the Arctic, you kind of have all or nothing in the summertime.

It

Oh, wow

... is gonna be better, and I need that wind.

It's like there's so many various environmental elements coming together that make this, this, this attempt of a non-stop single-handed circumnavigation of the Arctic, uh, more likely to be successful.

Still would be a huge challenge, obviously, and who the hell knows what's gonna happen, but, like, I got some things lining up.

So I, I need to just focus on trying to make this happen, and I don't...

I wanted to try to, like, do either or, right? I was trying to be like, "Oh, well, I could get up here, Lunenburg.

If I don't hear nothing I go back, get food.

No.

Yeah.

Somebody do a cross-track error.

So essentially you could put in...

You put a waypoint in, and then however many degrees of cross-track error you want, you know, or however many miles you're okay being off of it.

Um-

You said...

We were over to the boat the other day and, and you said you're relying on more, like, contractors than you typically do.

Like the engine installation-