2nd August, just got my first view of Baffin Island, albeit through the binoculars....
More thick fog overnight, it really is disconcerting with the icebergs about (and the "growlers"). Anyway, it all went well, we passed a few with no major problems apart from a small course alteration. It certainly gives you confidence in the radar system when it picks them up 5 to 6 miles away.........all good practice for next year coming down British Columbia.........another place renowned for it's fog !!!!
64' 20' N, 62' 24' W.........East of Cumberland Sound
02:00 to 04:00.........3rd August, on watch. Beautiful morning............the sun is rising (about 02:30) over Greenland (nearest point about 300 miles, so can't see it.). We have a passenger ferry ("Sea Explorer") going to the South of us at the moment (on it's way to Monumental Island) and about 16 miles away we have a large iceberg about 5 miles away.
A red sky this morning, never a good sign for sailors, or so the adage goes. Also the barometer has dropped from 1016 yesterday to 1013 today and we've got a bit of a mackerel cloud system hovering above. However, Brad from "Shear Madness" called us on the Sat phone yesterday with an update on the weather (our Iridium has gone on the bong at the mo.........could be the modem), from what he said it looks fairly quite until Monday / Tuesday. "Shear Madness" and "Migration" are on their way to Nuuk, Greenland.
Shear Madness, a 72 ' Nordhavn is owned by Brad & Kathy, we first saw them in Lunenberg. They are travelling with Migration a 68' Nordhavn owned by George & Marcy, they are all going to Greenland. Then Shear Madness is returning South for the winter and Migration is migrating ( ha ha ha) to France for the winter via Iceland, Faroes, UK etc etc.
65' 53' N, 62' 20' W...........wow.coming into Clephane Bay, passing a small piece of floating ice, smaller than a growler, something moves, then stands up turns and drops into the water.............a Polar bear or Ice bear as they are known.....FANTASTIC !!!!!
He / she swims away, but you can it turning and looking at us every 5 metres or so to see if we are chasing.
Just brilliant...................
We end up in what we have to decided to call "Windlass Creek", because as we started to drop he anchor the windlass failed..............NO !!!!! not more going wrong. We decided to leave it and sort it out in the morning.
Sun going down
Arty farty shot of the deck
Our first polar bear........i know rubbish shot.......it's the best i could do............that's his head just left of the right hand iceberg....
More thick fog overnight, it really is disconcerting with the icebergs about (and the "growlers"). Anyway, it all went well, we passed a few with no major problems apart from a small course alteration. It certainly gives you confidence in the radar system when it picks them up 5 to 6 miles away.........all good practice for next year coming down British Columbia.........another place renowned for it's fog !!!!
64' 20' N, 62' 24' W.........East of Cumberland Sound
02:00 to 04:00.........3rd August, on watch. Beautiful morning............the sun is rising (about 02:30) over Greenland (nearest point about 300 miles, so can't see it.). We have a passenger ferry ("Sea Explorer") going to the South of us at the moment (on it's way to Monumental Island) and about 16 miles away we have a large iceberg about 5 miles away.
A red sky this morning, never a good sign for sailors, or so the adage goes. Also the barometer has dropped from 1016 yesterday to 1013 today and we've got a bit of a mackerel cloud system hovering above. However, Brad from "Shear Madness" called us on the Sat phone yesterday with an update on the weather (our Iridium has gone on the bong at the mo.........could be the modem), from what he said it looks fairly quite until Monday / Tuesday. "Shear Madness" and "Migration" are on their way to Nuuk, Greenland.
Shear Madness, a 72 ' Nordhavn is owned by Brad & Kathy, we first saw them in Lunenberg. They are travelling with Migration a 68' Nordhavn owned by George & Marcy, they are all going to Greenland. Then Shear Madness is returning South for the winter and Migration is migrating ( ha ha ha) to France for the winter via Iceland, Faroes, UK etc etc.
65' 53' N, 62' 20' W...........wow.coming into Clephane Bay, passing a small piece of floating ice, smaller than a growler, something moves, then stands up turns and drops into the water.............a Polar bear or Ice bear as they are known.....FANTASTIC !!!!!
He / she swims away, but you can it turning and looking at us every 5 metres or so to see if we are chasing.
Just brilliant...................
We end up in what we have to decided to call "Windlass Creek", because as we started to drop he anchor the windlass failed..............NO !!!!! not more going wrong. We decided to leave it and sort it out in the morning.
Sun going down
Arty farty shot of the deck
Our first polar bear........i know rubbish shot.......it's the best i could do............that's his head just left of the right hand iceberg....
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