Northabout, Author at The Polar Ocean Challenge

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We have arrived at QAQORTOQ in order to allow Steve, Ben’s father to depart for home. Here we will recharge our personal and ships batteries

Alongside commercial dock QAQORTOQ (formerly named Julianhaab) Wind North 2KT,1002 hpa and steady, air temp is 5.1c, water temp is 7.2 c, some small ice chunks nothing dangerous, and we are alongside EAGLES QUEST II We have arrived at our…

The planned inland route was abandoned as the passage looked to shallow, so we have gone offshore, and are now faced with a fogbank. I’m off to the bow again, and will report on what happens later

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Rob Hudson, crew from David Strait/ Labrador Sea, 28 Sept UTC 17.00 A most fabulous experience on Northabout and words do not do justice to the splendour of this experience, but i’ll try to get my reactions down. “After last night’s…

27 Sept closer to south Greenland

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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.

Icebergs, whales and the Northern Lights

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David Wynne Davies, crew North Atlantic crossing written from the David Strait/ Labrador Sea, southern Greenland about the last few days Slipping out of Nuuk on a cloudy morning we instantly came across our first iceberg. It was relatively small but…

We are having fun and achieving our schedule of arrival in JULIANEHAAB/ QAQORTOQ by end of play tomorrow afternoon, and lets face it, if you’re not having fun what’s the point of doing it

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Position : 60,48.6N,047,19.7W Sept 27th At anchor, in a superb, totally protected anchorage, with stern anchor (kedge) in around 19m of water. wind N 5KT,1002 hpa and steady, air temp is 4.1c, water temp is 4.2 c, some growlers, some old…

The day has been pleasant, calm seas, beautiful scenery, aurora, wildlife, cooking and housework. It was the best day of the expedition. By far.

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Ben, crew, whole expedition 27 Sept 22.30 UTC Today was a perfect, and I mean perfect, day. I was woken up at half three in the morning in time for my watch which, while cold, was clear with a decent…

The sun is shining, we have a reasonable wind, and are making good progress towards a little anchorage called Tunulliatsaap Nunaa

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Quite a day! “Following the northern lights last night, we had a pod of maybe five whales alongside us as we approached Cape Desolation this afternoon, and an hour later a humpback breeched half a dozen times about 300m ahead….

The heavens danced above me for two glorious hours. Pale green ribbons and curtains stretched from one horizon to the other, twisting and turning, coiling and stretching, and as one spectacle passed another would form ahead

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Rob Hudson crew, Atlantic crossing, night of 26-27 Sept Many words have been written about the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, but none of them do justice to what occurred last night. David WD was on watch from 2000 to…

We have stopped overnight in some remarkably beautiful places and had time to go ashore to take pictures and get the feel of some even more remote communities than Upernavik, communities which are accessible only by boat or helicopter

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Steve Edwards, crew NW passage, leg 1 and Greenland. N61d 37. W049d 47 27th Sept It is 00:30 and I am awake. A few weeks of 24 hour passages has changed my sleep patterns so that I wake up after…

26 Sept Qeqertarsuatsiaat

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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

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