Rob, crew 4th Leg Atlantic Crossing, from Qaqortoq (Julianehavn), Greenland Sitting here in Qaqortoq (Julianehavn), I’ve been reflecting on the first week of this trip. It has been a wonderful experience so far, easily exceeding my expectations, and although I…
Rob Hudson, crew 4th leg, Atlantic crossing In Qaqortaq last night I was able to get wifi connection in a bar, so saw for the first time the blogs and photos on the expedition website from the last week. Fran…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Ben Edwards, crew, from Baffin Bay near Qeqertarsuatsiaat 26th Sept This is ridiculous. Three days in a row and we’ve had the best weather of the entire trip. We woke up in the morning to relative warmth and clear skies…
Rob Hudson, crew. 4th Leg: Atlantic crossing 26 Sept We arrived at Fiskanaesset/ Qeqertarsuatsiaat last night as it went dark, anchored, and after supper three of the crew went ashore to recce. The other three washed up, had a whisky and…
