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Category: LEG 4

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NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments30/09/2016
30 Sept QAQORTOQ to Uunartoq Incredible Iceberg with blue lines through it. It cracked sounding like a pistol shot; made us all jump! Majestic towering steep mountains rising up out of the sea. Speechless. And as if we're not international enough an expedition...

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments28/09/2016
28 Sept Davis Strait/ Labrador Sea arriving into QAQORTOQ Anchorage this morning at 60d 48.6N 047d09.7W IVNARSSUÁNGÛP NUNÀ We flew the drone as you can see :-) Arrived into QAQORTOQ in the evening in order to allow Steve, Ben’s father to depart...

27 Sept closer to south Greenland

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments28/09/2016
27 Sept closer to the bottom of Greenland "The best day by far says Ben!' Pleasant weather, calm seas, beautiful scenery, aurora, wildlife, cooking, housework.

26 Sept Qeqertarsuatsiaat

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments27/09/2016
26 Sept dipping round the bottom of Greenland Leaving Qeqertarsuatsiaat. First 24 hour sailing with new crew members. Another sunny warm day to an aurora filled night on night watch for Rob and DavidWD

25-26 Sept Faeringehavn to Fiskenaesset

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments26/09/2016
25-26 September abandoned port of FAERINGEHAVN to inhabited village of Fiskenæsset/ AKA Qeqertarsuatsiaat We took the dingy ashore to Qeqertarsuatsiaat to find a wonderful village of just 280 people with church, school and a hunting culture We took the opportunity to interview Shaun...

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments24/09/2016
24 September Leaving Nuuk and anchoring for the night at abandoned port of FAERINGEHAVN/Kangerluarsoruseq

22 & 23 Nuuk

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments23/09/2016
 22/23 September Nikolai hands over in Nuuk to new skipper Mike and 3 new crew

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments21/09/2016
Baffin Bay between Ilulissat and Nuuk 2 days and 3 nights of no wind, sunshine and clear skies to see the Aurora Borealis 20/21 September 2016

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments19/09/2016
REPLENISHING AT ILULISSAT Taking a day's break to see this wonderful place 19th September 2016

NorthaboutLEG 4No Comments18/09/2016
Arriving in Ilulissat, Greenland Approaching Ilulissat, Greenland through the icebergs and brash (small bits of glacier ice), ben helming. Our mooring next to Eagles Quest II and a brash ice filled harbour early morning 18th Sept

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