A Synthetic Rigging Upgrade: Vectran to Dyneema
Ganymede sailing hard with synthetic rigging. Masthead with soft attachments and the Lashing Tang When we first rigged Ganymede’s light-pole …
Refit and Relaunch
Picking Ganymede up with an hydraulic trailer Launching by trailer at a public launch ramp in Bristol The surest way …
Believe in the Method
The beginning of the method And if I haven’t had time to update this blog lately, dear Reader: be comforted! …
Winterin’
For the enthusiastic boater, that last little bit of autumn when the daytime temperature still gets above fifty degrees is …
Returning to Normal?
The Arctic is not most people’s “normal” I wondered, as Polar Sun rolled downwind across the Beaufort Sea along the …
The Final Push is Half the Battle.
Gjoa Haven, on King WIllian Island, Nunavut. It was as if the world had run out of interesting, that week …
A Farewell to Ice
Hanging out in Pasley Bay We weren’t expecting to get out of Pasley Bay on our last day there, and …
Foolish, Careless, or Unlucky?
Pack ice approaching Pasley Bay. “Well,” we thought. “Here we are again!” I’m talking, of course, about the south arm …
Farthest North
Beechey Island, at 74 1/2 degrees North latitude. It was cold as Polar Sun motored at length into the spacious …
Managed Expectations
Crossing Baffin Bay from Greenland to Baffin Island. The tricky thing about expectations is that no matter how well you …
The Treasures of the Snow
The Icefjord I’m about to talk about. We didn’t spend a whole lot of time in Aasiaat. To begin with, …
Into the Arctic
Nuuk is very lovely when the weather’s good… Nothing I had ever read or heard had led me to believe …
