Beechey Island, at 74 1/2 degrees North latitude. It was cold as Polar Sun motored at length into the spacious …

Crossing Baffin Bay from Greenland to Baffin Island. The tricky thing about expectations is that no matter how well you …

The Icefjord I’m about to talk about. We didn’t spend a whole lot of time in Aasiaat. To begin with, …

Nuuk is very lovely when the weather’s good… Nothing I had ever read or heard had led me to believe …

Red Bay, Labrador It was supposed to be an easy run from Flowers Cove, Newfoundland, to Chateau Bay, Labrador: gentle …

Cruising Newfoundland with the family some years back. There have been, in the nearly thirty years that I’ve been cruising, …

Polar Sun, a Stevens 47, enroute to Greenland For nearly a year before this trip began, neither Mark nor I …

Breadboat on a trailer A test-row on Psammead. When only a few weeks were left before my departure for a …

Ganymede’s cabin getting stowed and sorted for a voyage to the tropics. Once there, all you need is bare feet …

The final blow to the canopy, after the snow receded. I mentioned, a few posts back, the ill-fated bow shed …

Adapting a bracket for the windvane while at anchor One of the reasons that the old saw about necessity being …

Ganymede uncovered in winter In a huge departure from my normal practice of letting everyone forget I even have a …