Hello All
Even though we altered further to the north to avoid the belt of pack ice still in our way, we managed to find ourselves navigating through 6/10 of melting first year with multi year ice inclusions with many medium sized floes. It was not a mayor issue passing through it since the ice had enough space to move around, but we had to do it very slowly due to the sheer thickness of some of the pieces encountered.
This reduction, plus the poor visibility slow down we had to do this morning due to the presence of icebergs, bergy bits and growlers averaged our speed to noon to a mere 8.2 knots. The barograph dropped almost instantly as the front passed through with the gale northerlies packing the blowing snow onto the starboard side of the vessel's structures.
The wind is backing quickly now and by supper tonight we are expecting the South Westerlies to come through as the tail end of the depression. Hopefully it does a good job in blowing down this short, steep (6m) swell a bit, since the swell on the beach at Thule will determine whether or not we will be able to land our boat there.
Hold thumbs and keep well.
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