July 3rd 2015

We motored all day yesterday - there is NO wind in Greenland - to get to Sisimiut. Not a really eventful sail, saw a few whales and on getting closer to Sisimiut there were locals out in there boats shooting seal.
We have to report every 24hours to Greenland's Coastal Control of position, speed, ETA etc. I was late once and an hour later they were calling us on the radio, since then I've been sending a morning and evening report incase I forget one or the other. We pulled into Sisimiut last night at 11:30pm and rafted up against some boats, we were the 6th boat across. So I thought that I could wait until the morning to give them the report seeing that I had sent out the last one just over 12hours before. Was I wrong. At 2am the police came knocking on our hull making sure we were ok because we had failed to check in at midnight. Yikes!! To start of I was soo tired because we didn't' get to bed until midnight now I had to sit up and write a report. Grrr! I won't make that mistake again. The police were very nice about it even having to board 5 other boats just to get to us. When in Greenland make sure you follow their reporting system or they'll come a knockin'!

Tonight we're going up to the Seamans Hotel for some internet and dinner at their cafeteria, I can almost taste the wifi.

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June 27th 2015

We had such a great day today. We anchored off a small village and this morning took the dinghy in to explore. The town has no roads or running water. There were fillet's of fish hanging outside of peoples homes drying. We got invited into a locals home for cake and coffee. It is tradition that on your birthday to put on a feast for the town. Over the day majority of the residents came to eat and giving gifts. It was great. Inside was the cake, cookies and coffee.... and shots of whiskey. Outside was a table full of dried fish, strange plant (like celery), shrimp/ prawns and what looked like raw whale meat. We tried some of the dried fish, will skip that next village. The kids got lollie pops and played with some kids. The town was amazing and I have so much respect for the people who can live in such diversity. We picked up some UHT milk and fresh bread from the store. And headed home. I did pick something up in the water on the way home and worked on it for hours. I won't say what it is, just real exciting!

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June 26th 2015

Nuuk has been fun, we went to the solstice festival, ate seal, swam at the pool a couple of times and provisioned. We fuelled up this morning. There were 5 pumps with only one saying diesel but 3 of them actually did have diesel. There's a large rock upon entering the fuel dock, luckily Francis from SV Snow Dragon warned us about. The store there sold snacks, oil, guns, hats and there were odd embalmed animals hanging from the walls. Every place we go into is interesting and I have to hold myself back from taking random pictures. We bought a hand reel for fishing arctic char, red bull, wool socks for Crew, spare pair of sunglasses for Carl and the fuel 5,000+ krone.
Today we have left and are heading for who knows where. We plan on motoring/ sailing until dinner time and finding an anchorage. We're taking the inside route amoungst all the rocks and cliffs. Some of it is unchartered so fingers crossed we don't hit a rock. It's so beautiful. Greenland isn't green, we haven't seen any trees and even the grass is brown because summer hasn't quite hit yet. There's patches of snow everywhere, even at the waters edge. The girls are just dying to get off and play in the snow.

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June 19th 2015

We are a few hours out of Greenland. Yay!! It's been a long.... um 4 days, 5 days... I can't remember when we left. It's all a blur. Last night was rolly again, I think we need to rename the boat Rollo. Light head winds with one motor running, we made slow progress through the night. We all had a hard time sleeping with the rolling and poor Carl finally got to sleep at 11pm and started his watch at midnight and has been up ever since due to the heavy fog. We're all excited to check out Greenland.

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June 18th 2015

We are less than 24 hours out of Greenland. We have changed our plans and are making landfall in Paamiut instead of Nuuk. Its a small town with 1600 people, grocery store, laundry, showers... all the necessities. We're actually excited to see a small town first instead of the metropolis of Nuuk (pop 15000). Originally we changed our heading due to gale for winds but since then the weather has changed a bit and died down. We are all looking forward to some land. We knew that this trip over the Labrador Sea would be unpredictable and lumpy but we're all just plain out tired. Michelle has chundered a few times over the side, Capri puked once, Crew is doing ok and randomly slides across the salon. Carl got his sea legs today and is annoyingly happy. Peter has be our watch MASTER! Taking over most of the day time watches, giving michelle some rest and allowing Carl to help me out with the kids. Cali is a sailing trooper, no signs of seasickness.
I'll be sure to post something of our trip if/when we get internet.

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June 16th 2015

We left Fox Harbour Labrador yesterday at 11:30am. There was a nasty low that blew in the day before with 40kts of wind we waited a little longer in the morning to leave to let the seas calm a little. We had head seas around 4m which slammed us around a bit. We were all feeling a little under the weather and poor Capri lost her breakfast. So much for me taking 20 minutes to convince her to eat her peach skin not knowing that an hour later I was destined to toss it over board in a bucket of puke.
We saw a few icebergs out but it was the growlers (smaller bits of ice broken off from icebergs with majority of size under the water) we had to watch out for. Today the swell has calmed down a lot and we are making good time sailing downwind at 8kts. Almost 24 hours down and I'm ready to get there. 600 miles to go and as the girls say 4 more sleeps.

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June 14th 2015

We motored from St. Anthony, Newfoundland to Fox's Harbour in Labrador yestersay. There was barely a breeze out and the water was glassy. We were felt like we were drifting along like one of the icebergs heading south, other than our rumbling motors... and we were going north. It was a 10 hour run but a smooth one. We met another boat here at the fishing dock, Snow Dragon II, they will also be attempting the Northwest Passage this summer. It's finally good to meet up with another cruising boat. Peter is making cake and mousse and we are all going over to their boat for dinner tonight. Carl and I plan on discussing the weather a little more later on, we may be leaving out tomorrow for Nuuk, Greenland. If we leave out in the morning we'll encounter 3m waves and headwind's but if we wait a few hours for the seas to calm down we will probably meet up with bad weather on the last day of the trip. Low pressure fronts look to pass through the Labrador Sea every few days, no matter how we plan I think we will have a rough trip over. We can't really shorten the 6 day journey by arriving in the south west portion of Greenland because it's going to be encased with pack ice. If I'm not chucking up lunch over the side I'll be sure to update our log daily with our progress.

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