Since I last wrote it's been a bit of an uphill struggle. We had two days with great wind, unfortunately coming from the NW, which is exactly where we're trying to go. Yesterday, all wind disappeared again. It was a welcome break after the stresses of beating to windward, but, after bobbing about overnight, we started the motor this morning to try and get some forward progress. We will be into the low pressure systems coming our way probably by Monday. Then we'll have too much wind!
Despite the setbacks, we are about 1/3 of the way to Nuuk. We've crossed into a new time zone and the nights are significantly shorter now with only about four hours of darkness. Our approximate location is 500 miles south of Iceland and 650 miles east of Cape Farewell, the southernmost tip of Greenland. As we round the Cape, hopefully by the end of next week, we are planning to keep an offing of 150 miles to avoid this notorious and potentially dangerous area. All the pack ice and icebergs are swept around the Cape and up the west side by the southerly current coming down the east coast. Although the south coast has some of the best cruising ground, with very beautiful fjords, it doesn't open up until late August. Once around Cape Farewell, it's about 600 miles up the west coast to the ice-free zone around Nuuk where we'll be able to make landfall.
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Week1 28/6/2014 12:00 54°17.9'N 023°00.8'W
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