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Q&A: Getting Greenland Ice Charts By Satellite Phone
0 CommentsReading Time: < 1 minuteFreeRead more: Q&A: Getting Greenland Ice Charts By Satellite PhoneQuestion: What can you tell me about receiving Greenland ice charts by satellite phone? Is it a good solution and more reliable than weather fax?
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Q&A: How Do We Get Treadmaster To Stick To Aluminum?
7 CommentsReading Time: < 1 minuteFreeRead more: Q&A: How Do We Get Treadmaster To Stick To Aluminum?Question: We are having trouble getting our Treadmaster deck covering to stay stuck to our bare aluminum deck. What can you tell me about getting epoxy to stick to aluminum reliably?
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Disassembly And Refit Plans
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Read more: Disassembly And Refit PlansIt all started with six weeks of intense work last June stripping the deck for painting. Every cleat, every track, every fitting and every hatch came off and slowly a 10’x20’ storage unit filled with boat bits.
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Avon Dinghy
2 CommentsReading Time: < 1 minuteFreeRead more: Avon DinghyOur 16-year old Avon dinghy may not be much to look at, but it just keeps on floating! The bottom is covered with patches necessary after many rocky beach haul ups, not to mention being used as a pusher boat to move growlers in Greenland, but the pontoons still hold air for at least a […]
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Greenland 2003
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Read more: Greenland 2003Our last news letter was written from Isafjørdur on the northwest coast of Iceland where we were getting ready to cross Denmark Strait to Greenland. This comes to you from the Bras d’Or Lakes, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The intervening 2000 miles and seven weeks have been intense, rewarding, and yes, stressful too.
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Our Furthest North 2002
0 CommentsReading Time: 4 minutesFreeRead more: Our Furthest North 2002We last wrote from the west coast of Spitsbergen. From there we continued north visiting several anchorages, the most interesting being Virgohamna from where André left on his fatal attempt to reach the North Pole in a balloon. The dry Svalbard climate has preserved the remains of this expedition, and the slightly later Wellman attempt, […]
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Finnmark And Arrival In Svalbard (Spitsbergen), 2002
3 CommentsReading Time: 3 minutesFreeRead more: Finnmark And Arrival In Svalbard (Spitsbergen), 2002As I write this we are anchored in a small harbour formed by an old moraine, on the west coast of Spitsbergen, about a mile from the snout of a glacier. It is very different than Greenland in that the glaciers are much less active (smaller ice cap) and so we can get a lot […]
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The Dark Time, 2002
0 CommentsReading Time: 4 minutesFreeRead more: The Dark Time, 2002The sun has returned to North Norway and we are out sailing again, although there is little sign of spring yet: The locals say that if you can walk on the crust of the snow on June 15th it will be a late spring! Yesterday was our first sail of the season, a boisterous beat […]
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Slowing Down in Norway, 2001
2 CommentsReading Time: 3 minutesFreeRead more: Slowing Down in Norway, 2001Since our last newsletter, sent shortly after we arrived in Norway, our summer has evolved, some might say degenerated, into the slowest and most relaxing cruising we have ever done—a real contrast to our usual expedition style trips.
