Author: Rear-Adm. G. S. Ritchie, Hydrographer of the Navy,
Title: North-West Passage.
Description: Camden, ME, International Marine Pub Co, (1980). VG in VG DJ. In 1977, de Roos set out from Falmouth in his 13-metre steel ketch Williwaw, he had the advantage of accrued information by. previous explorers but the challenge of arctic water, the destructive cold & the unpredictable movement of the pack-ice was scarcely less awesome. Williwaw was the smallest boat ever to complete the passage and the first sailing boat since Gjoa safely through to Bering Strait.

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