With one week to go to Polar Bear's departure for the Arctic, Boogie and Marlies are working closely with the Polar Front team to get the boat ready and as self sufficient as possible for their 4 month trip up north!

The team did sea trials last week and finished some great improvements yet again to this fantastic yacht. Boogie and Marlies are very excited to take the yacht up north on some amazing Arctic sailing adventures. Their first stop will be the Shetland islands, where they will do some exploring, before continuing on North to Norway and cruise the world renowned Lofoten Islands. 

From there they will sail to Jan Mayen, a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean where the guests will go for a mountaineering trip and will be enjoying the local hot pools. Next stop is iconic Iceland, for some more exploring, a crew changeover and stock up on essentials. An important stop as from there Polar Bear will set sail to East Greenland (via Jan Mayen)!

Four weeks of adventure cruising in the breathtaking scenery of East Greenland will see them circumnavigating Milne Island and find new anchorages in this wild and mostly untouched part of the world.

For more information about the trips, have a look at the Adventure section and decide for which leg(s) of this very exciting Arctic summer trip you want to join them! 

A bit more background on Polar Bear: Polar Bear is a Challenge 72 and has quite a famous past. After circumnavigating the globe twice on the exciting Global Challenge, where people from all walks of life challenged themselves by racing the wrong way around the world, the recordbreaking yachtswoman Dee Caffari then took the yacht, then named Aviva, around the wrong way again, but this time solo! This astonishing feat earned her the title and record as the first woman to have circumnavigated the globe the 'wrong way around solo'. Since then, Dee has continued her record breaking career on the water and has finished early 2011 the Barcelona World Race, gaining her the world record of being the first woman to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in both directions.