Papay Arctic Adventure: October 2015

Friday, 23 October 2015

Papa

Sadly on the 15th of October, Daniel's father, Roger Wakeham passed away.

Rogers love of art continued to the very end and from his bed he painted this very special piece of art, "Daniels and Amanda - mooring, Quickstep, Melfjord - Norway 2014"
Roger was ever supportive and took great pleasure in watching Daniel's boating adventures. His wish was that we continued our adventure with Quickstep to Norway and we plan to do just that.

The collection in memory of Roger at the kirk was to two charities one of which was RNLI, we will put the RNLI part of our donations with this and send to them within the next few days.

What is Papay Arctic Adventure, Norway Part 2?

In 2014 we, Amanda Hourston (Papay), Daniel Elves (Suffolk) and Daniel Wakeham (Papay), took our 7.5m RIB, Quickstep, from Papay, Orkney to Norway, crossing the Arctic Circle and back. The 29 day, 2000+ mile adventure helped raise money for charity and pushed the boundaries of what can be done in a small RIB. This year Amanda and Daniel W aim to take the same RIB back to Norway going further north, hopefully 70°, Hammerfest and perhaps beyond! We will be spending the year (including overwintering) aboard travelling the Norwegian coastline. Have a look at Norway Part 2

and Whats different about Norway Part 2 for more information on our adventure.

UPDATE: We arrived in Norway on the 28th April 2016 and the adventure is going great!

UPDATE: We finished our arctic adventure in 2017, choosing to move to the Norwegian Arctic, where we now live!