The barque “Kruzenshtern”, that participated in the “World`s Sail” expedition dedicated to the 200 th anniversary of Antarctica discovery and the 75 th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, completed its voyage in Kaliningrad port.
The barque “Kruzenshtern”, that participated in the “World`s Sail” expedition dedicated to the 200 th anniversary of Antarctica discovery and the 75 th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, completed its voyage in Kaliningrad port.
The transatlantic expedition started on December, 8, 2019 in Kaliningrad. For nearly half a year “Kruzenshtern” crossed the equator twice, visited four countries and seven ports, took on board more than 10 thousand guests and won the sailing ship race organized by the Russian Federal Fishery Agency.
The sailing expedition ships “Sedov” and “Kruzenshtern” were equipped with the satellite facilities LookOut designed and produced by the Russian company LLC “ServiceSoft”.
According to the captain`s radio electronics assistant the last testing period of the satellite facilities LookOut, installed on the both vessels, demonstrated high servicing characteristics, reliable operational capability in the real marine operations. Besides the satellite facilities LookOut provided permanent vessel monitoring during the whole expedition.
The whole expedition lasted 179 days, 152 of which were spent in the sea, 24 000 nautical miles were covered.
Nowadays the world`s largest four-mast Russian sailing ship “Sedov” went from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad following the Northern sea route and finishing its round the world expedition in honour of the 200 th anniversary of Antarctica discovery and the 75 th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
There are no other cases of such voyage across the Northern sea route in history. In case of ice situation changes permanent connection with the icebreaking fleet is established.
The satellite beacon LookOut is still working on the sailing ship “Sedov” following the Northern sea route. LLC “ServiceSoft” will receive important and actual technical information about the beacons` operational capability that is essential for further improvement and development of the whole set of satellite facilities.