Danza Heads to the Arctic
| Vessel Name: | Danza |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Robert Clark |
| Hailing Port: | Edgecomb, Maine |
| Crew: | David Nutt, Judy Sandick, David R Nutt, Sarah Nutt, Charlotte Nutt, Jeff Hankins |
| About: | Family, family including nephew Jeff Hankins. Missing Jasper Nutt who is working for the summer. |
| Extra: | We did a circumnavigation on Danza 2000/2005 with the family leaving with the kids ages 4, 9,10 & 12. Life in the slow lane and it could not have been better. |
05 August 2010
27 July 2010
16 July 2010 | Davis Straits
16 July 2010
05 July 2010 | Woods Island
05 July 2010 | Neddy Harbor
07 June 2010 | West Boothbay Harbor, Maine
04 June 2010
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16 July 2010 | Davis Straits
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05 July 2010 | Woods Island
Newfoundland
This should have gone up before the other one. So it goes...
Newfoundland
05 July 2010 | Neddy Harbor
David Nutt
July 1, 2010, Canada Day!
So much for Corner Brook. Yesterday saw 40 knots of wind across the deck from time to time. The little harbor at Woods Island was a perfect place to let it blow like that. Winds waves were such that a trip to shore in the dinghy might have been a bad choice so we spent some time working on the perpetual projects that keep emerging on the boat. When we finally made it ashore late in the afternoon we saw williwaws on the far shore, where we by chance had not anchored the previous day, lifting water in a multitude of directions hundreds of feet in the air. I cannot imagine what it would have been like to be there.
Gerald Hickey came out in his dory for a cup of tea. He talked with a tone of bitterness about the resettlement 50 years ago. But what would they have if they did live here today? There is hardly a fish in the water and the fisheries are so tightly controlled that there are few options. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Moved up the coast from Woods Island today. We had a good breeze to start with but it soon dropped to nothing only to return with a light northerly in our face. We arrived in Bonne Bay in the late afternoon and anchored in Neddy Harbor. 10 pm the fireworks started and we watched from the boat giving a shot of our cannon at the end. Nice echo.
Friday, July 2nd. Northwest wind today so we when into East Arm and anchored along the north shore. The younger 2/3rds went one way and Judy and I went the other. Both groups had great hikes and returned tired and dirty.
Back to Neddy Harbor and calmly anchored. Heading north along the coast tomorrow weather permitting.
Cheers, David, Judy, et al....
So much for Corner Brook. Yesterday saw 40 knots of wind across the deck from time to time. The little harbor at Woods Island was a perfect place to let it blow like that. Winds waves were such that a trip to shore in the dinghy might have been a bad choice so we spent some time working on the perpetual projects that keep emerging on the boat. When we finally made it ashore late in the afternoon we saw williwaws on the far shore, where we by chance had not anchored the previous day, lifting water in a multitude of directions hundreds of feet in the air. I cannot imagine what it would have been like to be there.
Gerald Hickey came out in his dory for a cup of tea. He talked with a tone of bitterness about the resettlement 50 years ago. But what would they have if they did live here today? There is hardly a fish in the water and the fisheries are so tightly controlled that there are few options. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Moved up the coast from Woods Island today. We had a good breeze to start with but it soon dropped to nothing only to return with a light northerly in our face. We arrived in Bonne Bay in the late afternoon and anchored in Neddy Harbor. 10 pm the fireworks started and we watched from the boat giving a shot of our cannon at the end. Nice echo.
Friday, July 2nd. Northwest wind today so we when into East Arm and anchored along the north shore. The younger 2/3rds went one way and Judy and I went the other. Both groups had great hikes and returned tired and dirty.
Back to Neddy Harbor and calmly anchored. Heading north along the coast tomorrow weather permitting.
Cheers, David, Judy, et al....
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