Heeding the warning from the Canadian Coast Guard, Dogbark makes the tough decision to turn back.
Month: August 2018
Back and Forth, What the Heck?
This is not a retreat, though it may look like it to you tracker junkies. This boat still plans to go to Greenland. We hope that this next weather system will shake things up and let us go forward.
One Big Apology and some Answers to your Questions
After finding oodles of comments languishing in our junk folder, we answer your questions.
Our Wonderful Food
During our overnight passages and in Pt. Hope we have had wonderful food! From homemade pasta to chocolate moose!
Mukluk’s Adventures in Point Hope
Land Ho! DogBark’s crew cheered, (or actually just Savai and I). We had spotted Point Hope in the distance, a place where we were going to anchor to wait out a bad weather system.
Tigvariak Island Gale
For those of you who are not tracker junkies, we have moved to a new island, Tigvariak, which is at the entrance to Mikkelsen Bay. The reason was a weather forecast.
An Island in the Ice
We sailed overnight through ice that sometimes required us to backtrack, once and a while we even had to push ice out of the way. Twice our promising leads through the ice closed down to roughly the width of the boat