Category: Leg3NWpassage

Boat life in the Coronation Gulf. Making tea and can crushing Barbara being shown a highwayman’s hitch, or in Norway a smuggler’s hitch by Johan who has written a book on knots in Norwegian No swell as we are in an...

This is the navigation marker which is at the Western end of the NW Passage proper.  It is on Cape Bexley at 69d 00.77N 115d 55.44W. This is a pretty bleak place. Taking down the mainsail

You can see from the picture of the wind direction indicator at the top of the mast that we have the wind directly behind us today which in many ways is a very good thing.  There are however a few...

Arriving and refuelling our emergency fuel stock. Rick the truck driver kindly stayed after work especially because we arrived after hours (and on a holiday weekend!). Doug Saunders kindly let us stay moored at the pontoon at E. Grubens transport depot....

Johan sewing up the leather wheel cover which has finally started to break the old threads.  As we are still at sea Barbara is helming at the same time! Two of the sliders that attach the front of the main sail...

From Point Barrow to Tuktoyaktuk. We lost our auto helm in big seas and have been manually helming for 3 days.

Waving goodbye to Barrow and the USA. Taken as we headed North through the narrow entrance to the Barrow lagoon where we had moored for the crew change.  Not a terrible day but cold, windy and with rain, not very nice.