Sailing Over Melting Ice

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• Captain Vancouver died in England, not Hawaii.  It was Captain Cook who died in Hawaii at the hands of the Hawaiians, after they initially suspected that he might be a god.

  Posted by  on  06/10  at  07:35 AM

• Oh man, I got my Captains mixed up! Thanks.

  Posted by Editor  on  06/10  at  08:11 AM

• The idea of sailing on the sea/ice is good, IF the ice is planed out, properly hardfrozen and there is some wind. I myself got the same idea back in the 1980 on a sailcruise around North Cape (Norway), to do the N.E. Passage by single outrigger. At that time the problem was the Sovjet and all the stuff they had/have got in the North. However I participated in 1995 in a sailing by a 14 ft. outboard-engined dinghy 800 kms from Resoute Bay to Gjoa Haven, N.W.Passage, and the next year I circumnavigated Spitzbergen in my Joshua 40 Steelketch “ Aurore”. On both the trips we discussed seriously the possibility to do NE-and NW-passage by singleoutriggers, and our conclusions were to do it in two identical boats, two man in each, with simple equipment, which might be interchanged. In the ice you need patience and KISS principles. By the way, I attended the millennium coconut race in Majuro, Marshall Island and got duly impessed by the smaller Walaps.
  Greetins from
  Stig Larsen, Ketch Aurore, Aalborg Denmark

  Posted by  on  06/14  at  12:17 AM