Round-the-world sail expedition

ATTENTION The heavy current ice environment at the Northern Sea Way didn't let to begin the trip around the world this year. 25/8/96 "URANIA-2" turned back at 300 miles to the North from base port Eqerzund-Norvey after getting weather forecasting along Northern Sea Way. 4/8/96 the yacht reached the Central Yacht-club of Saint-Petersburg. The trip will be continued to prepare the beginning of new world-around trip to the South in the summer of 1997.

The expedition sailing yacht "Urania-II" with 10 members of the crew on board will leave the port of St.Petersburg at the end of July 1996. The aim of the expedition is to go around the Globe in the longitude direction across the Atlantic, Southeren, Pacific, North Atlantic oceans in 14 months. The route of the Round-the-Earth travel will go through Antarctica, the continent which the expedition is planning to cross on a sailing snow mobil through the Southern Pole. This is the first expedition in the longitude direction, where the main moving power will be energy of the wind and physical abilities of people. This is the first autonomus expedition in the history of crossing Antarctica trough the southern Pole (from sea to sea) without using mechanic means and equipment. The main feature of Transglobal expedition is that her trips - by sea or by land will be made under the sail.

This is a new step in the evolution of extreme trips.

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Intention of the expedition

Arrangement and realization of unique travel, in the course of which the next ideas will be accomplished:

round-the world sail expedition in the meridional diredtion;
crossing of the Antarctic continent from coast to coast through the Soutern Pole utilizing of sailing snowmobile, without engine and intermediate stores of food, fuel and equipment in the autonomous mode;
through passage of the North-East Sea Pathway by sailing yacht, from Deznev Cape to St.Petersburg along the Russian arctic shore.

A principal peculiarity of the expedition is that all its sea and land parts will be carried out under the sail, using only the power of the wind and human physical potentialities.

Singularity of the expedition

Transglobal sail expedition is unique and may pretend on the including in Guinnes Records Book according to next features:

for the first time sail expedition in meridional direction will take place;
for the first time the Antarctic continent will be crossed without engine and intermediate stores of food, fuel and equipment (in the autonomous mode);
for the first time the Antarctic continent will be crossed using the sailing snowmobil;
for the first time there will be the through passage of the North-East Sea Pathway by sailing yacht;
during the all expedition stages (in the sea and on the land) the act of the moving will be executed only under sail and using a power of wind.

Radio communication. Radio expedition.

During Round-the-World expedition 1n 1996, the training trip route Salekhard-Dikson island and the sea trip to Northen Sea in 1995, the group of skiers men and the yacht will communicate with the wirld by means of amateur short wave radio equipment. Communication with them is great interest for radioamateurs of the whole world. Russian and foreign radioamateurs will have a unique opportunity to receive a card-certificate, a pennant and special diploma for communication with the expedition. Following the example of the previous groups experiences it is planned to conduct some thousands of contacts with over 100 countries of the world. Through the radioamateurs channels the headquaters of the expedition will get information about movements of of the travellers.

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