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July 29th, 2009
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After a quick overnight in Godthab we ran up the coast for four hours and dropped the hook in Nordre Laksebugt, another beautiful and very isolated deep cove. Once settled, Chauncey and Sefton strapped snowboards onto their backs and started...
July 29th, 2009
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July 26th, 2009
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After a quick over night anchor at the small fishing village of Christianshab, (complete with hundreds of howling huskies on land) we left this morning around 9:00 A.M. We immediately came into a massively and seemingly endless ice field studded...
July 25th, 2009
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Seeing a nice wind window on the weather charts we left Sisimiut yesterday morning and immediately found that while the wind was as advertised (less than 12 kts from the north) the seas left over from an off-shore blow were lumpy and from most every...
July 18th, 2009
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Yesterday afternoon, at 3:30 p.m. local, we crossed the Arctic Circle and arrived here in Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Greenland two hours later, 20 minutes late for clearing in with Customs who won’t be open again until Monday… and one of us needs to...
July 14th, 2009
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First, let me say that St. Anthony’s, Newfoundland was as truly a welcoming harbor of refuge as we could have hoped for. Thank you to all who helped us enjoy our stay and get squared away. Having said that, waiting eight days for weather...
July 10th, 2009
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For the past week we’ve been hunkered down in a small northern cove of St. Anthony’s, Newfoundland. As mentioned before it was a small but persistent low pressure system which, having parked itself a few hundred miles away to the east in...
July 4th, 2009
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Waiting in St. Anthony's
Last night we pored over the weather charts and GRIB files again, looking for favorable weather trends for the next few days, all we saw was continued disorganized volatility. If it was benign enough for us to...
