Matt Rutherford who has sailed solo around North and South America is now involved with the Ocean Research Project. Matt and his partner Nicole Trenholm will help sail a Bruce Roberts steel-hulled sailboat to Greenland to study ocean temperatures affecting the glacial melt.
Matt Rutherford and Nicole Trenholm weren’t going to let bad news about a grant for this year’s arctic marine expedition stop them.
So they hitched a ride. Friends with boats, right?
“The deal is they will take us into Greenland waters for our research in exchange for me helping them navigate the toughest sections of the Northwest Passage,” Rutherford said. He met the owners of the boat while delivering a boat from Panama to San Diego a few years back.
The couple, who make up the Ocean Research Project using the small platform of a sailboat to perform marine research delving into man’s effect on the world’s oceans, was determined to get back into the Arctic for follow up research from their 2016 mission to northern Greenland. Read More
