

The North West Passage
The North West Passage. I am not going to try and even summarise the background and history to the North West Passage, 100's of books...
Novara on Deck
A brief video of Novara on deck.


Penosbcot Bay
The whole Maine coast is a cruising yachtsmans dream but Penobscot Bay must certainly be the jewel in Maines crown. With shelter provided...


From Curious to Novara
With most of the jobs now complete and Phil having left to spend a couple of weeks with his family back in Europe, Trish and I have...

Ice choked
The Canadian weather services have forecast a heavy ice year in the North Atlantic and with a month to go before we leave Halifax, Nova...


Summer at Last
As the weeks have rolled by we have slowly seen Camden come alive. After the coldest winter in 30 years spring and now summer have...


BIG RED
Novara already has an 11' 6" Avon fibreglass RIB with a 8hp 2 stroke Yamaha outboard that we use as the runabout. This sits on the...


Non std equipment
We hope that we will have some great adventures with Novara over the next few years and she will take us into some remote places....

Ice charts
Anyone venturing north into the Arctic has the benefit of fantastic information on the regional ice conditions as well as the usual...


A busy time
My apologies for the lack of recent blog postings but in the 7 1/2 weeks since Phil and I arrived we have had just one day off and much...