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The Vinson of Antarctica is a polar expedition vessel designed and built to sail in high latitudes

 
 

Her qualities make her the perfect boat to carry out expeditions in the wildest and unexplored corners of the Earth

 
 
 
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Conceived for

 

  • Adventure Sailing Expeditions

  • Scientific Field Research

  • Building Sea time and Experience

  • Film and Documentary Support

  • Climbing, diving and kayak expeditions support

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In parallel to these activities, the Vinson of Antarctica develops an international educational program with primary and secondary school students which aims to make a big impact and inspire changes in the new generations.

  • Enhancing the value of Science

  • Highlighting adventure and sailing values 

  • Raising awareness and sensitivity about the environment

  • Encouraging vocations

Endeavours

Overview

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There is a strong, historical, and geographical bond between Chile and exploration.

Shackleton’s crew was successfully rescued in Antarctica, after months of survival by their own means, by the Chilean Navy, more precisely by piloto Pardo and his crew. Geographically, the place from where a large part of Antarctica's expeditions set sail is a little Chilean town with a population of just twenty four hundred called Puerto Williams. It was in that little town located on the southern shore of the Beagle Channel where this project was born.

Image: The Yelcho appears on the horizon of Elephant Island

 

Puerto Williams is the starting point of many of Skip Novak’s expeditions.

As well as the place where the owner, the Chilean Nicolás Ibáñez Scott, has developed a sailing school with the ambitious goal of educating children through sailing. This sailing school is called CEDENA. It was there where Skip and Nicolás met, and as the result of that connection, the idea of relating both exploration and education was born to be incarnated in an exploration and training boat.

Image: Puerto Williams

 

Follow our journey

 
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View fullsize "I share an island in the southern South Atlantic Ocean with Magallanic penguins. A few casually stroll through my garden and a pair nest behind my battery shed. Sealions patrol the kelp line of the bay in front of the house -usually a big schoo
View fullsize "Antarctica, South Georgia, and Patagonia are magnanimous and shocking. They hook you from the first moment you see them; their beauty is evident and entirely visual. But instead, the Falklands' qualities are subtle and hidden. As a result, they
View fullsize Time flies! Its been five months since I stepped off Vinson of Antarctica at Cape Town harbour after 27 days at sea and the experience is still fresh in my mind. For me it was my first Atlantic crossing, the longest time I had spent at sea out
View fullsize For me the Alternative Shackleton Traverse was unfinished business. We came to try it in 2014 but were turned back by snow, rain and 60 knot winds. So I was thrilled at the chance to have another try. Well, thrilled in theory: setting off from King H
View fullsize Docked in Sub-Antarctic waters. September 2022. Two places where you can dock a boat once the Antarctic Convergence is crossed. At the old whalers station in Grytviken (South Georgia) and alongside the wreck at Enterprise Island (Antarctic Peninsula)
View fullsize The rumor reached me in the main salon enjoying a breakfast of Skip’s homemade bread produced late last evening whilst consuming a bottle of Shackleton scotch whiskey. Sebastian came down the companionway and beamed, “we’re going to
View fullsize [...] The wind was harsh to begin with, but by day two it dropped almost entirely, leaving us with hot sun and cloudless blue skies for the whole of our journey. A journey which took us through the most breathtakingly beautiful scenery. Everywhere we
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