Braving the Northwest Passage Blog
September 18th, 2009
| by: Sprague >>
Before we left Newport last June someone asked me if the thought of trying to transit the Northwest Passage worried me. My answer received no hesitation when I responded, “Yup, but not as much as the Bering Sea.” Throughout maritime history...
September 14th, 2009
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We arrived here in Nome on the 10th and have been exploring ever since. This city of around 4,000 sits 102 miles below the Arctic Circle and the differences from where we’ve been are dramatic if not subtle. To take stock of where we...
September 10th, 2009
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Seeing a weather window on the wind charts we took full advantage of it, left Barrow the afternoon of the 7th and started in on our current leg to Dutch Harbor, via Nome. We’re now in “Delivery Mode”; no sightseeing, no trips to shore to...
September 8th, 2009
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We arrived here in Barrow, AK September 4th and have spent the past few days catching up on email, picking up a part that was shipped to us (and again, a very special thanks to Judge Karen Hegyi for allowing us to have it shipped to her office...
September 2nd, 2009
| by: Sprague >>
After spending a day in Tuktoyaktuk we left at 6:00 a.m. to start the trek to Barrow, AK. “Tuk” was a small village peopled with again, some of the friendliest and accommodating folks we’ve had a chance to meet on the trip. While the landscape was...
August 31st, 2009
| by: Sprague >>
M/V BAGAN Log Entry: 0200 hours
August 31, 200969 27’ North Latitude135 00’ West LongitudeTuktoyaktuk Harbor, Canadian High Arctic.
Weather: 20-25 knot North winds. The air temperature is 33 F and heavy snow showers are coming off the polar ice cap...
August 30th, 2009
| by: Sprague >>
At 1:35 PST this afternoon we crossed our target meridian of 130 degrees west, thus ending our transit of The Northwest Passage! Dominique prepared us a Baked Alaska (very fitting) and we all breathed a very large sigh of relief and utter joy...
August 29th, 2009
| by: Sprague >>
Two and a half days out of Cambridge Bay and we sit snuggly in Summers Harbor on Booth Island. We saw two small depressions forming down the road and decided to tuck in here and let them blow over us. The top winds forecast were for 30...
