A Solo circumnavigation of the Southern Hemisphere on the Rowboat “AKROS”

Message from Fedor Konyukhov via Iridium Go: “It’s the morning of January 11th, the sky is covered with solid clouds, without any gaps. The night passed calmly, although at sunset a sudden squall hit, creating chaos on the water, tossing the boat from side to side. Later the wind settled and shifted to the northwest, […]

Message from Fedor Konyukhov: “Merry Christmas to all Orthodox Christians! I thank God for allowing me to live to see this day. I have celebrated Christmas in the oceans many times and always felt how nature rejoices on this day. In all my diaries, I describe the unusual state of the ocean and the sky. […]

Messages from Fedor Konyukhov via Iridium Go: “One month on the route. It feels like there’s nothing in the world other than the ocean and my boat. Grey ocean and grey sky. Good thing that the boat’s color is orange, offering at least some visual contrast. In the ocean you start to miss colors, on […]

Fedor Konyukhov welcomes the final day of 2024 in a good spirit. From December 26th to December 29th, he had to fight a headwind, and after shifting southward, he had to wait another day until the wave also changed direction to a downwind. As a result, slight progress on the course and constant rocking of […]

Tonight, moving north, Fedor Konyukhov had crossed the mark of 50 degrees of south latitude and thus left the “furious fifties” and joined the “roaring forties” latitudes. These are, of course, conventions, but psychologically, these numbers are important to Fedor. Cape Leeuwin (Western Australia), marked by Fedor on the screen of the chart plotter, is […]

For several days now, the project team has been monitoring two icebergs drifting north from Antarctica into the Weddell Sea. One of the icebergs is the size of Moscow, the other is smaller. And although these fields of the Antarctic glacier are located south of Fedor’s route, hundreds, if not thousands of pieces of ice […]

Today, December 12, Fedor Konyukhov turns 73. He celebrates his birthday on board of nine-meter rowboat “AKROS” in the South Atlantic on his way to Australia. Endless ocean for many hundreds of miles around… Penetrating dampness, rolling every morning from the Antarctic… Constant cold in an extremely limited space… And the need for constant, intense […]

On December 5th 2024 at 5.30 a.m., Fedor Konyukhov has set off on a solo voyage on the rowboat “AKROS” from the Drake Passage, which separates South America and Antarctica, heading towards Australia. The traveler will have to cover 185 degrees from west to east, through the South Atlantic and the South Indian Ocean. Fedor […]