Sun Aug 8 10:00:00 EDT 2010, Hopedale, Labrador, Canada
View from the top of the hill.
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Sat Aug 7 10:00:00 EDT 2010, Hopedale, Labrador, Canada
I saw several plywood rowboats like this one around Hopedale, where they are used for fishing and rowing around. Note the thole pins for oarlocks.
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What kind of fishing do they do with the skiffs?
Simple but strong row boat. You could make it with a circular saw and a sabre saw.
Thole pins are fashionable in the classic rowing world.
- George
I like thole pins--they are functional and much easier to fix when broken than pretty bronze rowlocks with weak shafts.
Gill nets were set for arctic char and salmon on the outer Islands.
Fri Aug 6 7:42:52 EDT 2010, Hopedale, Labrador, Canada
Four-wheelers are very popular in northern Canada. What roads exist are gravel and not very long, and the four-wheelers/ATVs work well on them and on the many trails.
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Fri Aug 6 7:36:47 EDT 2010, Hopedale, Labrador, Canada
The public dock is a popular place. The children are playing and I believe the adults are getting ready to go seal hunting.
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Thu Aug 5 6:41:44 EDT 2010, Hopedale, Labrador, Canada
View from the public dock. Canada has a great system of public docks in most towns. No services are provided, but anyone can tie up to them for a limited period of time.
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Tue Aug 3 10:00:00 EDT 2010, Hopedale, Labrador, Canada
We sailed up the Labrador coast to Hopedale, where we are approaching the anchorage in the picture. Hopedale is a fairly long way in from the outer islands (about 30 miles), so, arriving late enough yesterday to be unable to reach Hopedale before dark, we hove-to offshore for the night, then sailed in the morning.
Hopedale is the site of a Moravian church and a museum which we plan to visit.
Yann's vacation time has finished, so, sadly for us, he has returned to France.
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I've asked commercial fishermen about trolling here...they said they've not heard of anyone trying it.
Mon Aug 2 10:00:00 EDT 2010, Cartwright, Labrador, Canada
We went back to Cartwright a few days ago (we are north of there now) for more work on the rigging.
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Sun Aug 1 10:00:00 EDT 2010
A bergy bit is a large piece of glacier ice (not sea ice), but smaller than an iceberg. Bergy bits extend more than 1m above sea level and generally less than 5m above sea level.
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Fri Jul 30 10:00:00 EDT 2010
When the sun is shining, the Labrador coast is really beautiful, full of islands, rocks and snow or tree-covered hills. Here we are sailing into a cove to anchor to wait out a coming gale.
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Thu Jul 29 12:00:00 EDT 2010, Cartwright, Labrador, Canada
One of the Cartwright ferries. Cartwright used to be at the end of the road (which went to a ferry that went to the island of Newfoundland), and from here, one needed to take a ferry to Goose Bay to get to the rest of Canada. Recently, a new road was opened between Cartwright and Goose Bay.
We have been sitting out a gale in Cartwright. A noticeable thing in this pleasant town of 600 is that the phrase "Beautiful Day" is used like "Hello". The weather doesn't seem to have any effect on whether or not one should say "hello" or "beautiful day". Yesterday, in the driving wind and rain of the gale, walking past a person on the muddy road, our conversation went: "Beautiful Day?" "Beautiful Day"
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Fair winds,
Werner Baeumler -S/V Queen Colleen II
