Southern Star Arrives Sunday

A multinational team of sailors, scientists, and journalists studying the effects of global climate change on the Northwest Passage will be sailing under the Golden Gate this Sunday at 2 p.m. Let’s give them a big Bay welcome by greeting them aboard our boats.

The 75-ft Bill Tripp designed Southern Star has made six other trips to the Arctic under the command of French skipper Olivier Pitras. This trip was to bring awareness to and study global warming and its effect on the normally ice-packed Northwest Passage. Southern Star set sail from Norway in May and the crew plans to circumnavigate North America in the next several months, returning to Norway next May.

Olivier Pitras will be speaking at St. Francis YC’s Wednesday Yachting Luncheon — open to all other yacht clubs’ members for $13.50 — on November 12 at 12:30 p.m. sharp (the buffet lunch opens at 11:45 a.m.), and we’ll have a full report on their expedition in an upcoming issue of Latitude. For more on their journey, visit www.69nord.com/english.