We have sailed the high northern latitudes for 16 years in our 56’ McCurdy and Rhodes aluminum cutter Morgan’s Cloud. In that time we have cruised 100,000 miles, visiting remote areas like the east coast of Greenland (three times), Baffin Island, Labrador, Arctic Norway and Svalbard (Spitsbergen), while developing a sailing style we call Attainable Adventure Cruising: techniques of preparation and execution that allow us, who are not even slightly intrepid, to visit some of the world’s more remote places while staying within our comfort zone—at least most of the time. We cruise the high latitudes not just to visit a place and move on, but to really experience it: to spend time with the people, to learn of the history and culture, to gunk-hole remote anchorages, to hike, to ski; to photograph and write about these wild places. Learn more about us.

Our presentations are illustrated with spectacular slides and can be tailored to your interests, either on the places we have cruised to or more technical talks on weather, navigation, and boat handling that can help you have an adventure at whatever level you want it to be.

How-To:

Anchoring and Docking Skills for the Real World.

Based on our Cruising World Magazine Articles.

Taming The Wimp Within.

Anxiety management skills for cruisers.

Attainable Adventure Cruising.

Skills and techniques that allow two people—us—who are not even slightly intrepid to cruise some of the world’s more remote and hostile places.

Destinations:

Ice and White Space: Voyages Off the Charts to East Greenland on Morgan's Cloud.

A compendium of our three visits to the remote Southeast Coast of Greenland-- 350 barely charted miles of magnificent coastline, with mountains, deep fjords and countless glaciers

In the Wake of Graah.

The story of Willem Graah, a Danish Naval officer who made an incredible voyage of exploration along the Southeast Coast of Greenland in a skin boat with Greenlandic (Inuit) companions in 1829-30, and our fascination with his journey and attempts over six years and three visits to follow in his wake.

Midnight Sun and Midday Dark.

We are the authors of the Norwegian Cruising Guide, Third Edition, eBook. Join us as we explore Lofoten, a chain of spiky mountainous islands dotted with small fishing harbours; Tromsø, where we spent two winters living on board Morgan’s Cloud at 70°N; Nordkapp, the northernmost point of Europe; and remote Finnmark to the Russian border, where we sailed further east than Istanbul. Our slides of spectacular fjords and isolated offshore islands will make you want to voyage to Norway without delay!

A Voyage to Svalbard (Spitsbergen) on Morgan's Cloud.

Further north than the northernmost point of Alaska, Svalbard truly is another world. The story of a seven-week cruise on Morgan's Cloud including two transits of Hinlopen Strait and a visit to Nordaustlandet, the remote and uninhabited island that together with Spitsbergen and scores of smaller islands make up the Svalbard Archipelago.