On Oct 19, 3:15?pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:58:40 +0200, (Martin

Sch n) wrote:
Two guys sailed through the NW passage in the mid 1980s on
a Hobie 18.

Yes but they did a lot of "over ice" portages if my memory is correct,
not exactly an open passage.

Your memory is correct. Here's a link to a page with news about that
Hobie 18 voyage. (scroll down to the bottom of the page). It took them
a total of three summers to make the trip- it didn't really include
all of the NW Passage, and there's a photo of them building an "igloo"
enclosure around their pup tent with the Hobie high and dry on an ice
floe.

http://www.latitude38.com/LectronicL...14/Sept14.html

It's a stretch to claim that people "sailed" the NW Passage in a Hobie
18.