Novara

We are sitting out the blow and having got a weather update from Fred it looks like we will be here until the early hours of the morning....

We have used up all our spare days and must now crack on and get north quickly. With a reasonably favourable weather forecast we plan to...

The wild bunch are world class big wall climbers and have found a soul mate in the Reverend Bob Shepton, a legend in the sailing and...

Well we were supposed to be in Pond Inlet by now but this coastline is so incredible we could not pass by Sam Ford Fjord without stopping...

Road Kill! Here is a photo of the Polar Bear Phil nearly ran over. The first he new that there was a bear alongside was when he heard it...

Strong southerlies built up on the evening of the 12th , funnelling straight down the anchorage so once again the skipper was up checking...

We arrived in the Clyde River anchorage around 3am in dense fog, even so our radar told us we had a few bergs around and given how...

We took some video footage of Novara breaking out into Home Bay but were turned back by increasing amounts and density if the ribbons of...

A long day motoring in light and variable southerlies. The passage across Home Bay and the remnants of the “fast ice” ribbons and then...

Another call into iceman Fred told us that the latest ice charts showed that the older, thicker ice had broken away and headed south and...