Category: Iceland
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Louise Bourgeois
Tim and I went to the Island National Gallery on Thursday. There was an exhibition by Louise Bourgeois and some of her pieces felt strangely familiar. There were disturbing nightmarish shapes. Many were ghastly un-namely things of no colour and some were puce. Frightening bulging shapes bursting out. Then I remembered Tim’s splendid duff that…
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It’s all change.
Stuart has now left for Ullapool. He really enjoyed the trip but commitments back in Scotland meant that he needed to fly back. We will miss him. Stuart’s industrial yellow Wellies were often the only way the Sumara crew knew where the Thembi crew were. They could be spotted from several miles trudging through the…
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Girlie Talk
I’ve got the solution to the girlie talk. Ear defenders and a copy of Earthmovers Monthly. Perfect. I think Charlotte has gone shopping for nail varnish remover again.
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Reykjavik
Now I’m sitting in a cosy café sheltering from the gale. We moored outside the new concert hall next to Thembi at 02:30 this morning before the wind got up. It was a grand sail but the wind eventually dropped off. There were continuous gale warnings on the VHF so we decided to start up…
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Race before the Gale
Position N64,41.41 x W023,51.10 Wind NW F4 Thembi and Sumara left Olafsvik at midnight in order to use a short weather window to get us to Reykjavik. Sumara is currently of Malarrif with full main and a poled out genoa making 5kts on the log but punching at least one knot of tide. It has…
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Snaefelljokull
Position N64,53.76 x W023,42.20 Wind SE Gale Force 9 It was not a good day to go sailing or climbing, so we decided to go climbing. On Saturday we woke at 07:00 after a disturbed night on the tyre wall. The wind had really got up and we were being blown against it with such…
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Journey to the Centre of the World
Descend into the crater of Yocul ofSneffels, Which the shade of ScartarisCaresses, Before the kalends of JulyAudacious traveller, And you willReach the centre of the earth. I did it.Arne Saknussemm. So we are now moored on the tyre wall at the base of Snaefell Jokull. Our long warps are weighted by my splendid bronze chum…
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Ice and Whales
Position N65,35.66 x W024,41.75. Wind Flukey SW F1-4 I am feeling a little bit sad that we are not going to see Greenland. Perhaps we should have pushed on but decisions needed to be made and I think it was the correct choice. I would hate to need to seek assistance if we made a…
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Denmark Straight
Position N66,27.868 x W025,54.99. Dense Fog Sadly we have decided to abandon our attempt to get to Greenland. A grib weather file was showing really strong winds approaching the area of coast that we proposed to try to make landfall. As it was by no means certain that the ice would have cleared enough to…
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Into the Ice
Position N66,13.7 x W023,22.28. Wind – just dropped off. We had a highly successful visit to Isafjordur, no one arrested and no one injured. Siggi and his father were marvelous. Siggi’s father, Jon, gave us a huge chunk of wolf fish to take to sea. That will be our super tonight then a nice fish…