Sailing Uma Crossed The Arctic And Then Made The Biggest Decision Of Their Lives

Sailing Uma Crossed The Arctic And Then Made The Biggest Decision Of Their Lives They had already crossed the Atlantic. They had already navigated above the Arctic Circle, within 700 miles of the North Pole. They had already sailed more than 28,000 miles on a boat most sailors would have refused to leave the dock on. And then they pulled Uma out of the water, stripped her down to a bare hull, and started over from scratch. That was not the plan when Dan Deckert and Kika Mevs bought their 1972 Pearson 36 in 2014. At the time, the plan was much simpler: don't buy a couch.