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Andrey reducing the sail on the yacht Lady Mary during family’s’ circumnavigation of the world and setting a new world record, Indian Ocean, Western Australia, 2021.

Russian family Klochkovs have been living on the ocean for eight years on their yacht Lady Mary. During that time the family passed all meridians, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Southern Oceans, five southern capes, including Cape Horn, the Strait of Magellan, Drake Passage, and twice crossed the equator, faced countless storms and tempests. They explored the least known portion of the Pacific and proved the absence of land marked on modern nautical charts. Andrey and Marina with their two daughters Nastya and Lada repeated some of the routes of the great explorers – James Cook, Fabian Bellingshausen, Adam Krusenstern. They walked the paths of Charles Darwin, Thor Heyerdahl and Jack London, and followed in the footsteps of the characters of Jules Verne’s book. There is no evidence of other such voyage with children anywhere in the world. The family set a new world record. “In the South Atlantic, from the Strait of Magellan to Tristan da Cunha, the storm raged for 29 days. The strongest 11-point storm caught up with us five hundred miles north of Cape Horn. We are the only family with children to have passed Cape Horn under sail. In the post-Soviet era. The only way to survive in the ocean is to become part of it, to tune into its soul. I've learned to feel the ocean, the wind, the sail, the boat even when I am sleep. The elements are not dangerous if you learn to interact with them."

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Australia
Camera: Canon EOS R
Copyright: © Iulia Galushina