Attached is a list of completed transits of the NW Passage as of 2019.  As far as I know, there was only one completed transit by a pleasure craft in 2020, the year of the pandemic when Canada closed its borders, which was by Peter Smith.  He not only transited the Passage, Kiwi Roa challenged Canadian restrictions to innocent passage rights.

"His successful transit marks the first time that a vessel invoked innocent passage and navigated through the Northwest Passage in defiance of explicit Canadian disapproval. Canada’s claim of effective control will now always have the Kiwi Roa asterisk hanging over it."

I was following Peter the entire way last year and wrote about it in my blog. He did it without ever going ashore and sailing much more of the distance than most.

Meanwhile, in February, Canada announced a one-year ban on pleasure craft transiting the NW Passage.

What a long strange year it's been.

Vice Commodore, OCC