We usually don’t cover superyachts, but I’ve been fascinated by the Northwest Passage ever since my friend Sprague Theobald cruised across it on his Nordhavn 57 with his family in 2009. (Theobald wrote a great book about his adventure, transiting some of the most dangerous – and often frozen – waters on the planet, called “The Other Side of the Ice.”)
Here’s a great you-are-there video about two trips through the Passage on Latitude, a 148-foot Vripack, in the summers of 2014 and 2015, complete with polar bears, whales, icebergs, glaciers and even a trip to the memorial to the Franklin Expedition, which left England to explore the Passage on two ships in 1845 under Sir John Franklin; Franklin and his 128 men were never seen again. The Passage, connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific across the top of the world, still has been transited by only a handful of recreational powerboats to this day.
Take a look:
