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Wayne, prop guy?
On Sat, 05 Sep 2015 08:39:31 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: On Sat, 05 Sep 2015 08:02:45 -0400, John H. wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 23:20:10 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:29:18 -0400, wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:36:24 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: It also looks like it would be a good short cut on the way north to Newfoundland and Labrador. Sounds "cold" ;-) === Yah but... ...what I'd really like to do is cross to Europe by way of Greenland, Iceland and Scotland. Crazy? Of course, and it will probably never happen. A few weeks in Labrador might cure me with any luck, and I've always wanted to cruise Nova Scotia. When you grow up in the lake effect snow belt of upstate NY the ice never totally leaves your blood stream. :-) I read a while back about a group crossing made by owners of some brand of boat that I can't remember right now (Nordic Tug?). Perhaps there are brand or club group crossings that you could latch onto? === You're probably thinking about the Nordhavn Trans Atlantic Rally in 2004. http://www.nordhavn.com/rally/voyage/welcome.htm I followed that event closely and have corresponded with several of the participants. We met one of them last summer up in the Chesapeake and had dinner with them at Solomons. They say it will probably never happen again, and if it does, it will start without them. That rally took the southern route: Lauderdale to Bermuda, Bermuda to the Azores, and Azores to Gibralter. They encountered some really nasty head seas on the last leg to Gibralter and there were a number of boats that developed mechanical problems. Nordhavn's are quite a different boat than ours. They have a very long fuel range, long enough to cross oceans without refueling. We do not. On the other hand we have twin engines, more speed, and a lot of other redundancy so there are offsetting factors to an extent. The northern route that I'm thinking about has much shorter legs, the longest being about 3 or 4 days, and well within our fuel range. The advantage there is that you can get fairly reliable weather information over 3 or 4 days. The disadvantage is that the water is cold, there are ice hazzards, fog, and frequent weather changes. It can also get pretty rough. I am not sure about the summer but we really didn't have a big enough boat several times in a 6 week cruise. We were getting tossed around a lot. Usually they just have someone from the deck crew at the helm but when it got really nasty, they put a rated quartermaster at the wheel and the captain was on the bridge. |
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