Top: Humpback in Elfin Cove, Alaska.
Photo Andy Gregory. Center: Crew at
their work stations aboard ‘Ocean Watch.”
Bottom: A memorable blue iceberg.
around the americas By Herb Mccormick
Halfway Home
In early December, off the coast
of Brazil in the South Atlantic Ocean,
the trip log aboard the 64-foot steel
cutter, Ocean Watch, spun around
to a nice, round figure: 14,000. That
was the number, in nautical miles,
that skipper Mark Schrader and his
crew had traveled since departing
from Seattle last May 31
st
on their
quest to sail Around the Americas
(www.aroundtheamericas.org) via the
Northwest Passage and Cape Horn. It
had been an eventful journey thus far.
Co-sponsored by Seattle’s Pacific
Science Center (PSC) and the ocean-
conservation organization Sailors for
the Sea, with additional funding from
private backers and corporate donors
including the Tiffany Foundation and
Unilever, the Around the Americas
expedition was conceived as a voyage
of discovery to highlight oceanic and
environmental issues in North and
South America.
Along with Schrader and his full-
time, three-man team – mate Dave
Logan, photographer David Thoreson,
and yours truly, a career sailing
journalist – Ocean Watch’s rotating
crew included scientists like Michael
Reynolds, an oceanographer and
atmospheric specialist; sea-ice expert
Harry Stern from the University of
Washington’s Applied Physics Lab
48° No r t h , Ja N u a r y 2010 Pa g e 48
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