Iceberg Sitings
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 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 15th, 2009
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Left Nuk this morning at 4:00 a.m. and will be dropping the hook in Sondre Stromfjord around 10:30 tonight. We’ll remain here for the next few days exploring this 100 mile long fjord and hopefully upload some pictures and/or video. In...
July 12th, 2009
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Powering slowly through pack-ice. Watching four polar bears all break through ice & surface together in tight circle. Amazing, they’re performing a synchronized water ballet complete with pink nose clips – stubby little rear legs aren’t going to...
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...
