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The Sea Dragon safely sailed into Aratiu Harbor in Raratonga, South Cook Islands on Saturday May 14th. Greeted by the customs and immigrations officers and Scuba Steve, the owner and founder of Pacific Divers and Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative who we will be working with for the next 14 days,… Read the rest

After 10 exciting weeks of submissions, and two anticipatory weeks of public voting, we have our Chaco Waves for Change Grand Prize Winner. The contestant whose artwork received the most votes is… Nastassja Pace!
Congratulations, Nastassja! Voters think your plastic wave depiction truly illustrates our world’s addiction to single use… Read the rest

Every year, National Geographic rounds up a small group of adventurers worthy of a spot on the nominee list for its annual Adventurer of the Year award. To be a nominee in the first place, one must have undergone an extraordinary feat in “exploration, conservation and … Read the restadventure sports.” And this

October fourth marked the beginning of the annual Lüderitz Speed Challenge, an event for speed sailers, wind surfers and kite surfers to show off their speed. This year is the fourth edition of the event itself and, as usual, it will last for several weeks–until October 31st–in Lüderitz, Namibia.
This… Read the rest

As I was scouring the Creative Commons of Flickr to find photos for this week’s edition of ‘Round the World, Styx’s “Come Sail Away” started playing in the coffee house I was sitting in. So because of that and the fact that the weather happened to be the perfect mix… Read the rest

Sailing on an ancient junk boat in Vietnam, riding a rickshaw in Japan or seeing the pyramids on camels – there are thousands of odd and intriguing forms of transportation around the world. Here are some of the strangest:
1. Bamboo Train, Cambodia
Between Battambang and Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh,… Read the rest

The documentary Finding Farley… Read the rest (first prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival) traces the steps of a husband and wife, along with their two-year-old son and dog,  as they make their way by foot and canoe from their home in Alberta to the famed Canadian author and naturalist Farley Mowat‘s

You may have heard of Laura Dekker before. She’s a 14-year-old Dutch girl with hopes of becoming the youngest person to attempt a solo circumnavigation of the globe. Concerned about her welfare, the Dutch government barred Dekker from beginning what it stated was an “undeniably daring and risky” voyage in… Read the rest

Thomas Miklautsch wind surfing in front of the Perito Moreno glacier … Read the restin the Los Glaciares National Park in the south west of Santa Cruz province, Argentina.

As of today, a report coming from The British Royal Navy states that Paul and Rachel Chandler’s 38-foot sloop, the Lynn Rival has been found adrift. The two sailors last transmitted a distress call off the coast of East Africa from a position within striking distance of a Somali pirate… Read the rest

Leave it to the Swedes to enter a sauna into a match race. The SS Silla recently scored the title of World’s Fastest Floating Sauna, clocking 15.5 knots (the equivalent of 28.71 kph/17.84 mph) at Match Cup Sweden. And it’s not just a sauna, the SS Silla is actually a… Read the rest

Liz, who blogs for us on her iWend page from deep in the South Pacific, has a new video presented by Patagonia, and produced by Tiffany Campbell. I was lucky enough to sail with her a couple of years ago down Baja, and I still dream about it. Thought we’d… Read the rest

Sometimes you find yourself in charge of securing a canoe to a car. This can be a problem, if like 70% of everyone, you make it up as you go. The other 30% of people have watched this video. Bookmark this page on your iPhone for use in the field.… Read the rest

11,000 miles is a long way to sail. Our Wend Ambassador Liz Clark knows that well. But what about sailing those 11,000 miles on nothing but recycled plastic?
In April, adventurer and environmentalists David De Rothschild will be taking on the waves of the great Pacific Ocean as he attempts… Read the rest

I’m psyched on Wend Ambassador Liz Clark’s new post up on iWend (For those of you who don’t know Liz, check out her blog– she’s been at sea for a couple of years on her way around the world and she blogs about her travels once a week via satellite.… Read the rest