Missed yesterday’s post? Click here. One of the dullest days so far, even though it was made much more bearable by beautiful Durdle Door and the general scenery. LOVELY DAY FOR A SWIM With nothing much else to do and considering it had been more than 5 weeks since my last shower, 2 weeks since my last swim and several days since my last proper full-scale wash, I decided to go for a swim and clean myself up a bit along the way. I was also going to wash and hang to dry the clothes I was wearing and change into some saltwater stained clean damp (they never fully dried) clothes. BIRD POO… EEK Exactly as had happened once before, I was about to take off my clothes and suddenly I see floating pools of bird poo mixed with feathers, some driftwood twigs, bits of fleece fabric and what I […]

Missed yesterday’s post? Click here. When I woke up this morning, the head cold or whatever I had felt building up in my body over the past couple of days seemed to have mostly gone, which is good. To keep the divine balance of the universe, fortune blessed me with significant muscle ache all over my body instead, quite possibly a related symptom. SEAL INSPECTION The morning passed with rest time and watching a curious seal circling the boat and inspecting us. Judging from its facial expression it was not entirely convinced that the wild-haired creatures it was looking at were kosher, to be frank. PHONE CALLS Leven spent a good part of the morning on phone calls to our mystery rower, who is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting for us at the moment from Paulatuk, and to the people the latter had gotten us in touch with, […]

Now that we are on our merry way again and the preliminary patch of the leak has survived the re-launch of our boat back into the sea and more than a hundred miles of motoring and a fair few miles of rowing, it seems a good time to provide more details about the repairs done. AN ODE TO OUR SKIPPER? MORE AN ATTEMPT TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT Those who know me, know that I’m not big on brown-nosing. My superiors usually appreciate me, often hire me back, but even the biggest supporters amongst them have in the past called me ‘outspoken’, ‘strong-willed’, and ‘not averse to controversy’. However, a lot of people with next to no insight into our circumstances have been very liberal in dishing out advice and criticising us over the past few days, and I didn’t like it. So I would herewith share my slightly better-informed […]

Missed yesterday’s post? Click here. The morning was uneventful. Then at around noon the day suddenly became way too eventful. DAYDREAMING, READING EXPLORERS’ WEB ARTICLES Now that there no longer is that much bailing to do, I was doing a bit of day dreaming while lazily glancing through a few ExplorersWeb articles I had downloaded from the internet. Kayaking along Greenland’s shores, rock-climbing in the Karakorum, high-altitude skiing in Patagonia, paragliding in the Himalaya, or trail running in the Alps all sound kind of fun, but what would Ellie say if I asked her permission? A SACRED PROMISE I had promised her, that if she lets me go on this Northwest Passage thingy, I’ll come on any silly overpacked FOMO-driven sight-seeing tours she wants to book us on and I won’t go on any other major projects of my own for a while. Maybe just gently pass a few ideas by her, […]