August 15th: we woke up late at six thirty and in full day light. Stephan, Kiki and Kingsley, owners and founders of “Ocean imaging” from Australia came with a plan. Continue reading “Blind in a rat hole”
Blind in a rat hole
Running with tides and anchoring in front of glaciers
August 12: tides in the fjords of Greenland run the show. They are much more predictable than the imaginary south winds of our former weatherman. Continue reading “Running with tides and anchoring in front of glaciers”
Kiki: bare skin diving in freezing Greenland water…
August 11th. What a wonderful night in this quiet and well protected anchorage in the middle of nowhere. No growlers to bump on, no navigation to do, no sails to change, no rock and roll movements nor craked bones. Continue reading “Kiki: bare skin diving in freezing Greenland water…”
To Kangerlussuaq
In the evening, around 7:00 , we left Nuuk to pick up the crew coming for the next few days in Kangerlussuaq, a small town farther north. We sailed down the fjord in the twilight and away from the danger of the rocky shores and then up North. Continue reading “To Kangerlussuaq”
Nuuk
We spent the last day of this first week of August enjoying a peaceful night, Breskell “parked” on a flat sea, away from the dangers of the rocky shore. One lonely companion, an iceberg 2.5 miles away, signed later on my radar. It was drifting in our company at the same speed and in the same direction. Continue reading “Nuuk”
Land at last: Greenland !
We motored all night. Want to guess again about the wind direction at daybreak on this six of August ? Better not! With daybreak , we got … a light SE at last. For a hardcore sailor, nothing could be better news. Continue reading “Land at last: Greenland !”