Champagne sailing for our last day and Dogbark finds a new berth at the Royal Newfound Yacht Club.
Northwest Passage
NW Passage Complete, but We’re Not Done Yet!
We’ve conclude the NW Passage of our journey, now to make our way down south!
A New Frontier at Fort Ross
Tracing the steps and exploring the former trading grounds of one of Canada’s oldest companies, Hudson’s Bay Company.
The Day We Did ALL the Things!
Pushing through the ice towards Bellot Strait, we find new edges among belugas and a once in a lifetime experience with the Canadian Coast Guard!
Welcome to the Global Race to the Ice Edge Challenge
It’s a race to the first real ice edge flow in Larsen Sound!
A Full Moon and Friendships
A quick pitstop in Cambridge Bay, but we are rewarded with good laughs and new friendships.
Do You Ever Feel Like You’re Upside Down?
A bumpy few days and wildfire smoke sets a dystopian feel to our adventure.
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Through the Looking Ice
Looking through our crystal ice ball to determine our route through the NW Passage.
We’re in Polar Bear Country Now
So how does one navigate getting onto a beach to meet a taxi but there are two polar bear cubs and probably a mama polar bear not too far in between you? You send a sacrificial lamb of course.
Talia’s First By-line
Talia wrote an article for SAIL Magazine about our time in the Arctic. It’s a great piece, and we’re so proud!
Ode to Becca and John
There aren’t many people who could stand being cooped up on a boat with our family of four, twenty-four-seven, for four months, across 7,700 miles, in extreme conditions.
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Dogbark Turns Back
Heeding the warning from the Canadian Coast Guard, Dogbark makes the tough decision to turn back.
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.
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
Roald Amundsen
This is a report Savai did in 4th grade before we plucked her out of school a little early to set sail.
Are critters also sailing through the Northwest Passage?
GUEST POST BY BECCA–The Northwest Passage is there because the ice is not. So how is this new waterway affecting the lives of critters that were previously turned back by ice?
Introducing our crew: Becca and John
When Graeme and I sailed across the Pacific, we were pretty much solo. For this adventure, however, we want all the help we can get. Enter our illustrious crew: Becca and John Guillote.
Talia’s Northwest Passage and Europe Bucket List
Well, I’m just gonna go ahead and say that so far I have definitely not been the person in my family who is most excited about this trip. But, there are some things that I am really looking forward to. Here is a list…
Dogbark’s Route (Talia’s Extremely Rough Draft)
It is hard to tell you anything about our route because it is designed to be extremely flexible. But here is a list of our (possible) major stops, and the distance between each one.