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Thursday August 09, 2014 (74o 35’No 90.00’W): Rigby Harbour, Graham Harbour was a safe anchorage, as hoped, but during our three day stay it was still necessary to re-anchor nearly a dozen times due to wind changes and the roaming pieces of ice that had found their way into the inner harbor.  Like the other…

Graham Harbour, Thursday August 7, 2014 (74o 30.355’N, 88o 08.973’W): The crew threatened mutiny at the suggestion that re-anchoring in Blanley Bay (74o28.6’N / 87o20.4’W) might be an option. Two days earlier we had left Cuming Inlet, with its musk ox and walruses, to head further west down the coast of Devon Island, with the…

Saturday/Sunday August 2 & 4, 2014 (74o 39’N, 85o 01’W): Cuming Inlet We departed Dundas Harbour at 11:00 Saturday morning August 2nd , bidding good-bye to the yacht Arctic Tern on the way out and then heading out under sail, along the coast of Devon Island towards Resolute, 250 miles to the west.  More accurately…

Saturday August 2, 2014 (72o 58’N, 76o 17’W): Dundas Harbor Having decided that Pond Inlet was not a viable refueling stop, the next logical choice was to head north to Lancaster Sound, the entrance to Parry Channel and  common waters for all routes through the Northwest Passage.  Conceivably, we had enough fuel to make it…

Monday July 28 – Tuesday July 29, 2014 (72o 58’N, 76o 17’W): Bylot Island After refueling and resupplying, we left Upernavik, Greenland Friday  afternoon July 25th and dropped anchor 3 days later in a bay north of Cape Graham Moore on Bylot Island, Canada. The trip across Baffin Bay started with ideal sailing conditions, finishing…

Monday July 28, 2014 (72o 58’N, 76o 17’W): Approaching Pond Inlet Early this morning, we were heading for a bay northeast of  Pond Inlet, Canada. Pond Inlet is a favored entry  point for the Northwest Passage, as it is a good port to resupply. As would be expected, the road here has been an ongoing…

1930 EDT Saturday July 26, 2014 (72o 54’N, 65o 55’W): Middle of Baffin Bay Thursday morning, Dave woke me from a deep slumber with 15 minutes to spare before my 0600 watch.  Half awake, I mechanically swung my feet around the aft end of the lee cloth, onto the cold wooden floor. (The lee cloth…

0900 EDT Wednesday July 23, 2014 (70o 33’N, 55o 21’W): Up the Greenland Coast Following our brisk sail on Sunday, we arrived in Aasiaat (Egedesminde) around 5:00 am Monday morning and dropped anchor in the far corner of the harbor, over by a cluster of large petroleum tanks. Exhausted, we slept in, rising around noon,…

1630 EDT Sunday July 20, 2014 (68o 00’N, 51o 44’W): Surfing Lillian is  currently running hard before the wind, at times surfing down the faces of the following waves. Her speed over the bottom (COG) has hit as high as 10 knots. Even allowing for a knot of current in our favor, that’s fast for…

Back entry from July 16th  (64o 10’N, 51o 44’W): Nuuk   After our sobering encounter with ice off the southwest coast of Greenland on the evening of the 14th, we motored in thick fog up the coast towards Nuuk, never seeing a hint of land the entire 200 miles. Chris voiced his skepticism that it…