The Selma, a steel ketch mostly manned by a Polish crew, is the first yacht in history to reach the end of the Bay of Whales in the Antarctic Ross Sea solely under wind power.
“We cannot sail any further,” skipper Piotr Kuźniar told the PAP news agency after reaching a latitude of 78°43’926” S, breaking the previous sailing record of 78°43’566” S set by Katharsis II, a British vessel manned by a Polish crew under Mariusz Koper.
The boat managed the feat at 2029 UTC on Thursday evening. Read More
