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Do you want to do The Northwest Passage? – Part 5

This is the last in this five-part series. I have been sorting through some archival footage from my 2019 transit of the Northwest Passage aboard Oliver Huin’s Breskell. Maybe this will be fun for the armchair sailors. Maybe it will be helpful for those planning a future trip. Like Jimmy Cornell’s: The High Latitude Challenge 2026-2027 I’ve heard it said that fewer people have transited the Northwest Passage by boat than have… Read More

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Marlinspike, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, ThreeSheets, Video Tags: Alaska, Anchor, anchorage, Arctic, Beaufort Sea, Breskell, Cambridge Bay, Canada, dolphin and union strait, golf, hudson bay, lady of lourdes, northwest territory, Nunavut, outpost, pingo, port townsend, read island, the resourceful sailor, trading, tuktoyakyuk, victoria island

Do you want to do The Northwest Passage? – Part 3

I have been sorting through some archival footage from my 2019 transit of the Northwest Passage aboard Oliver Huin’s Breskell. Maybe this will be fun for the armchair sailors. Maybe it will be helpful for those planning a future trip. Like Jimmy Cornell’s: The High Latitude Challenge 2026-2027 I’ve heard it said that fewer people have transited the Northwest Passage by boat than have climbed Mount Everest. If true, I suspect that… Read More

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Marlinspike, Overnight Trips, The Northwest Passage, Video Tags: altego, anchorage, Arctic, barrow, Breskell, Canada, coffee, Crow's Nest, czech, devon, France, franklin strait, French, graham harbor, growlers, ice, island, lancaster, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Opale, peel, sailboat, sound, strait

Do you want to do The Northwest Passage? – Part 2

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Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, Video, Wildlife Tags: anchorage, Arctic, baffin bay, Breskell, bugs, bylot island, Canada, danish, Denmark, Disko bay, disko island, greenland, greenlandic, hiking, iceberg, inuit, navy board inlet, Nunavut, qeqertarsuaq, sailboat, Seal, sisimiut, Tay Bay, The Northwest Passage

Do You Want To Do The Northwest Passage? – Part 1

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Northwest Passage, Video Tags: anchorage, assaqutac, baffin, Breskell, Canada, crow's nest, dinghy, greenland, high latitude challenge, inuit, jimmy cornell, Mittimatalik, mount everest, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Olivier Huin, Pond Inlet, Sailing with Josh, youtube

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 have a broad interpretation. But when these break down or are nonexistent, creativity and ingenuity must prevail. Whether sailors or landlubbers, many people are ‘bricolagists,’ and they often have similar materials at hand. A special thank you to Monica and the… Read More

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

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 Townsend, Washington, USA, via Greenland and the Northwest Passage. The miles: 6658(ish) Nautical Miles The boat: Breskell – an old timey, lo-tech, cold-molded sled What is next for me? A million dollar question! But no worries….things have a way…..

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