Mario’s Log

Mario’s Log: September 19th, 2025 It’s time to stop kidding ourselves. We’re really coming down to it now.  A couple of nights ago, as Scott and I discussed the plan for the route to Anacortes...

Stacy in one of her …sweeter moments. Mario’s Log – September 12th, 2025 All I said was something I’d been saying for two-plus months on this trip. “Get out of my galley.” Spending...

The helm station aboard the M/V Sarah-Sarah – September 5th: 0001 Mario’s Log: September 5th, 2025 It feels like a lot longer. Back in May of this year, on a shakedown cruise (of me) with...

Water over the bow – INSIDE the entrance to False Pass after escaping a 70 mile run from 14 footers in the Bering. Mario Log: September 1st, 2025 Current ripped out of False Pass into the...

August 21, 2025 – Sarah-Sarah heads for an ice field that can only be avoided by turning back. Mario’s Log: 22 August 2025 Everything was going fine and none of us saw anything in the...

Satellite photo of our exit from the Northwest Passage, taken August 15th. The white is all ice; not a cloud in the sky. Mario’s Log – August 15th, 2025 Many of my friends following this...

Sarah-Sarah surprises twenty-two Atlantic Walrus, just minding their own business on a gravel beach in Blanley Bay, Devon Island, Nunavut – August 2nd, 2025 Mario’s Log: August 9th, 2025...

The 52-foot commercial fishing vessel Jamie K sits aground near Cape Blanco, Ore., July 21, 2015. Petty Officer 2nd Class Darren Harrity, a rescue swimmer and member of the responding MH-65 Dolphin...

Sandersons Hope – a Mountain just South of Upernavik. Mario’s Log – July 29th Tomorrow morning, we leave Greenland and head across Baffin Bay for Lancaster Sound; the start – if there is one –...

Sam, Dan, and Scott on the way out this morning as we travel from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland. Mario’s Log: July 15th, 2025 Now, I don’t want to make any snap judgments – these...