Arctic Publications

MAY 2013; Waterkampioen#05
North West Passage 2012

Currents, sea ice and a party (episode 3 in a series of 3)
The last stretch, the skipper is actually all much too fast. "desolation, loneliness, human tragedies, the ultimate Island feel of Boudewijn Büch and all that in a frigid Arctic setting"

APR 2013; Waterkampioen#04
North West Passage 2012

In de greep van het pakijs (episode 2 in a series of 3)
The NW passage is a battle with cold, wind and shallows. In the Navy Board Inlet ice blocks the passage. On Jonathan III they are anxiously waiting wether the wind will shift or or that the tidal flow will embed them.

MAR 2013; Waterkampioen#03
North West Passage 2012

On to the end of the world (episode 1 in a series of 3)
Mark van de Weg has explored most northern regions for years with his 15-meter aluminum Koopmans. Last year he crossed as one of the first pleasure craft operators through the Northwest passage, from Greenland to Alaska

FEB 2013; Zeilen
To Spitsbergen with Jonathan IV

`In Tromsø Marco de Boer joins the crew on board of Jonathan IV of skipper Mark van de Weg".....
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JAN 2013; Zilt Magazine for sailors
Jonathan IV heads for 78° N: Icy terrain

Every spring Jonathan IV sails from its winterberth in Tromsø (nooth Norway) to Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen for the charterseason.....
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FEB 2008; Waterkampioen#03
On the run for the ice

`Mark, can you be ready on the 22nd?" Why? "The BBC wants to film Alks in the Bellsund".....

JAN 2004; Waterkampioen#01
Wintering in the ice. The return of the light

Mark & Marina are having a good time in their private bay. After a warm period, the ice finally is thick enough and the return of the light helps their good mood. They are going out more now on skis and with the dogslead.

DEC 2003; Waterkampioen#23
Wintering in the ice..

Mark en Marina are leaving Longyearbyen for the bay they will be wintering in...

SEP 2003; Waterkampioen#17
Jonathan III on Spitsbergen

The shipslog of Thorleif Bjerntes.
After the crossing from Holland to Longyearbyen on Svalbard, Mark & Marina are following the log ofThorleif with his daugher...

AUG 2003; Waterkampioen#15
Icecream? Svalbard also has a summer...

APR 4, 2003; Svalbard Posten#14
Mark og Marina nyter a lyses er kommet tilbake...

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APR 2003; Waterkampioen#8
Adventure: On the way to the freezer

Mark van de Weg & Marina van Dijk will have themselfs frozen in at Spitsbergen.

DEC 2002; Waterkampioen#24
1600 Kilo of stock,
an adapted yacht and two guard-dogs

Waterkampioen-cooperator- Mark van de Weg is ready to defy meters of ice, hungry polarbears and  three pitch-dark months at Spitsbergen.
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