Braving the Northwest Passage Blog
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...
July 3rd, 2009
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July 3
Currently we sit in St. Anthony’s waiting for a weather window that will allow us to cross the 900 miles to Greenland. The three components we’re watching are fog, ice and wind, all to be found on weather charts that we can download...
July 1st, 2009
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Sprague: It’s only been two days since your last blog post but when we don’t hear from you I start to get a little nervous. Is everything OK? I know you hit high winds and some pretty rough seas the other night… That was the last we heard. Please...
July 1st, 2009
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Dominique was the first to see it on radar; an extremely large target which wasn’t moving, especially out of our way. We’d left North Arm at 10:00 a.m. on June 30th and 18 hours later entered the Straight of Belle Isle. It’d been a picture perfect...
June 29th, 2009
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Yesterday morning at 10:00 we left Harve-Aubert to head out across the Cabot Straights and up the west side of Newfoundland. “They” called for 10-12kt breezes and slight chop; Mother Nature failed to get the memo. By 2:00 in the...
June 27th, 2009
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Yesterday, at of 3:00 p.m. local time, we locked through the Canso Causeway, left the foggy Atlantic behind and sailed into the sunny Gulf of St. Lawrence. 70 degree air temps & 65 degree water temps were far from what any of us expected...
June 25th, 2009
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I write these words with extreme caution, but today just very well might be “the” day. As of late last night the computer had been beaten into submission and Windows was accepting whatever we threw at it, in my case literally. We left it...
June 24th, 2009
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New Computer
I’ll keep this short and not so sweet; there‘s a reason five out of five crew members aboard Bagan have MacBooks…. The new computer arrived last night, the one we waited five days for, the one we paid a fortune to get up here and...
June 23rd, 2009
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Halifax Rain
Still in Halifax, which was more or less expected. When we left Newport we knew that there were still some jobs that needed to be attended to but also knew life would be a bit easier if not less expensive up here. We’ve been...
June 21st, 2009
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Halifax
Still in Halifax and most probably will be here for the next few days. We’ve been watching a system develop off-shore and last night it came ashore as a pretty fair n’or easter; driving rain, gusts 35 – 40 kts and all in all a good...
