Today Novak is known throughout the sailing world as the go-to man for sailing-led polar exploration.
Yachting world skip novak. Skip competed in four editions of the Whitbread Round the World Race before deciding to follow his passion for exploration and adventure at high latitudes with his company. Essential yacht racing skills. Lhamon will present the award at the clubs annual awards dinner at the New York Yacht Club in New York on March 6 2015.
Cruising Club of Americas Commodore Frederic T. 36 Off Watch From Whitbread races to ice adventures with Skip. Sailing across the Atlantic.
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To explain what is required of a tough boat for storm sailing Skip Novak introduces his two Pelagics the original go-anywhere 54-footer and a 74ft pilothouse. Skippering the Independent Endeavour in 1979 he won the Parmelia Race from Plymouth to Freemantle Australia. This collection of in-depth features prepared and filmed while sailing round Cape Horn in Skips yacht Pelagic features interactive photos diagrams and videos to take you through all aspects.
This is not a joke. In that year at the age of 25 he navigated the British Cutter Kings Legend to 2nd place. Skip Novak has just wrapped up his latest Pelagic expedition in which he led a team of 10 scientists from Oxford University University College London Cornell University Bristol University and the University of Maine to the remote South Sandwich Island chain in the Southern Ocean on board his sailing vessel Pelagic Australis.
Skip Novak has been selected by the Cruising Club of America to receive the Clubs Blue Water Medal for 2014 in recognition of his many years of cruising and exploring the Antarctic. Published on December 4th 2020. He is best known for his participation in four Whitbread Round the World Yacht Races since 1977.