The journey, planned with the assistance of EYOS Expeditions, began in Fort Lauderdale. The yacht and crew cruised to Jamaica, into Bocas del Toro in Panama, then headed up the west coast to the Galapagos. “We needed to be in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, by mid-July to be past all the weather fronts to enter the Northwest Passage from Nome,” says Samuelson, who served as both captain and chief engineer on the journey. They had eight days to get from Cambridge Bay in Canada where the owner joined the boat, to Arctic Bay, a Hamlet in Baffin Bay, Canada, where he disembarked.