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Do you want to do The Northwest Passage? – Part 4

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 Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, Video Tags: Arctic Circle, baffin bay, Baffin Island, Breskell, Canada, Conception Bay, greenland, Labrador sea, Newfoundland, Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, The Northwest Passage

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

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, ends in Brittany, France, and starts in early May. I previously transited the NW Passage in 2019 from east to west, crewing aboard Breskell, a 50-foot cold-molded sailboat. That trip began in Newfoundland and ended in Port Townsend. So you could say… Read More

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