The Northwest Passage | Sailing With Josh

The Northwest Passage 2022: Details For Following Sailing With Josh

The 2022 expedition I have joined through the Northwest Passage this summer is about to get underway. If successful, it will be my second transit. The first in 2019 was east...

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, PTSA, The Northwest Passage, The Salish Sea Tags: Anacortes, Arctic 2022, arctic ocean, baffin bay, bering strait, Boreal 47, brittany, Canada, False Pass, Flicka 20, France, inook, Northwest Passage, port townsend, sailboat, Sailing with Josh, Vancouver Island

The Northwest Passage – Time to Unwind

I will be attempting a west-to-east transit of the Northwest Passage in the summer of 2022 as crew aboard a French-owned and built Boréal 47 sailboat. This trip begins in Anacortes,...

Category: Culture, Overnight Trips, The Northwest Passage, The Salish Sea, ThreeSheets, Wildlife Tags: Anacortes, arctic ocean, Atlantic Ocean, baffin bay, Bering Straight, Boreal 44, Breskell, Cambridge Bay, Canada, Canadian archipelago, centerboard, France, Newfoundland, Norwhal, Peel Sound, Polar bear, Pond Inlet, port townsend, sailboat, Sampaguita, Sir John Franklin, The Northwest Passage, tuktoyaktuk, Vancouver Island, washington

Tales Of The Northwest Passage – Tuktoyaktuk – What’s In A Fish?

Photo: Eric Maffre Breskell stopped in Tuk for provisions and repairs and left with a story of human connection. Tales From The Northwest Passage – Tuktoyakyuk – What’s In A Fish?...

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, Wildlife Tags: 48 North, Beaufort Sea, Breskell, Canada, Morgane and the Big Blue, Northwest Maritime Center, Northwest Passage, pingo, provisioning, public dock, Salmon, Tuk, tuktoyaktuk, vagrant speciers, voyaging

Shouldn’t Every Boat Have a Crow’s Nest?

What could be more salty? The latest installment by the Resourceful Sailor Series in Latitude 38′s online ‘Lectronic Latitude, centers around the addition of Breskell‘s crow’s nest for her transit of...

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, The Resourceful Sailor Series Tags: altego 2, aluminum, Arctic, Breskell, Coffee Time, Crow's Nest, E[oxy, Latitude 38, Lectronic Latitude, Newfoundland, Northwest Passage, Opale, Peel Sound, port townsend, Rafting, Resourceful Sailor, Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, sailboat, Walt Trisdale, wooden boat

Tales from the Northwest Passage: Arctic ‘Bricolage’, Part 2

Dictionary.com defines bricolage [bree-kuh-lahzh] as “a construction made of whatever materials are at hand; something created from a variety of available things.” With financial means and healthy supply chains, this definition can...

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, The Resourceful Sailor Series Tags: Arctic, Breskell, bricolage, Cambridge Bay, Canada, duct tape, furler, greenland, Marlinspike, Northwest Passage, northwest territory, Nunavut, Olivier Huin, Pablo Picasso, Resourceful Sailor, sailboat, Waste knot want knot, welding, wood pallet

SAIL Magazine: Marlinspike Seamanship in the Arctic

When Captain Olivier Huin asked me to secure the gear on the deck of Breskell for her transit through the Northwest Passage in 2019, I was happy I knew my knots. A special...

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Marlinspike, Overnight Trips, The Northwest Passage Tags: Alaska, bow sprit, bowline, Breskell, Canada, ddiesel bladder, deck gear, dinghy, greenland, Labrador sea, marlin hitch, Marlinspike, Northwest Passage, Olivier Huin, outboard engine, propane tanks, reef knot, sail magazine, seamanship, sheet bend

The Meaning of May

I would like to thank Joe Cline, Andy Cross, and all the crew at 48° North for choosing and publishing my poem about the meaning of May. It appears in the Lifestyle section...

Category: Culture, June on the Hook 2017, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, Vancouver Island 2018 Tags: 48 North, Anchor, Astoria, boating season, Breskell, Canada, Flicka 20, Image, Inside Passage, Northwest Maritime Center, Northwest Passage, pacific northwest, Pacific Seacraft, Poem, port angeles, port townsend, sailboat, sailing magazine, Sampaguita, Stay Gold, Swiftsure, Thankful, The Meaning of May, three sheets northwest, Vancouver Island

Tales from the Northwest Passage: Arctic ‘Bricolage’

Bricolage – French for Do-It-Yourself! When S/V Breskell transited the Northwest Passage in the summer of 2019, there was a bit of bricolage along the way. The link below offers a...

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Northwest Passage, The Resourceful Sailor Series Tags: Alaska, Breskell, bricolage, Canada, France, French, greenland, helm, Labrador sea, Latitude 38, Lectronic Latitude, Newfoundland, Northern Pacific, Northwest Passage, Olivier Huin, port townsend, Resourceful Sailor, sailboat, sailing, staysail pole, tiller pilot, wine box, wooden boat

93 days with Olivier

Our route in Mapshare The total: June 26-Sept. 26, 2019 The refit: June 26-July 16 (21 days) The voyage: July 17-Sept. 26, 2019 (72 days) St. John’s, Newfoundland, CA to Port...

Category: Culture, Overnight Trips, The Northwest Passage, ThreeSheets Tags: Alaska, Aleutian islands, bering strait, Breskell, Cambridge Bay, Canada, cold molded, Davis Strait, garmin inreach, greenland, Newfoundland, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Olivier Huin, Pond Inlet, port townsend, sailboat, sailing

Northwest Passage Complete!

People wonder where the photos are, as if the internet grows on trees. But there are not trees in the Arctic. We landed in Nome yesterday after passing through Bering Strait...

Category: Culture, Overnight Trips, The Northwest Passage Tags: altego 2, bering strait, Breskell, inook, nome, Northwest Passage, port townsend, roald amundson

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