By Paul Homewood
h/t Green Sand
A few weeks ago, a family of six was holed up in Nome, waiting for the ice to clear so that they could attempt to sail to Greenland through the Northwest Passage:
Like so many other attempts in recent years, they did not get very far at all:
http://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Dogbark
Their yacht, the Dogbark, barely got beyond Prudhoe Bay, when it was forced to turn back on August 18.
This was their blog post at the time:
Yesterday I received this note from Victor Wejer, one of the men who helps boats navigate the Northwest Passage.
Then he told me that Franklin Strait has started to refreeze. Franklin Strait is one of the main bottlenecks that we hoped to traverse to complete the passage to Greenland. We can’t even get there because the border between Alaska and Canada is blocked, with the only other…
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