Hm...
You are certainly ambitious! As I understand it you, with hardly any
experience behind you, you wish to sail, in a rather large
boat that most of us would consider an handful, and one requiring a crew of three or four able-bodied seamen, up the
west coast of America, against the
wind, through "the graveyard of ships" on the ocean side of
Vancouver Island, or, alternatively, through the narrow Discovery
Passage and Johnson Straits on the "inside" of VI, waterways that are infested with large
cruise ships, and subject to fierce tidal streams, thence across open
North Pacific waters to the south western tip of Unimak Island. (Or are you gonna strike straight across the 2,000 nautical miles of fierce
North Pacific Waters that lie between SF and Unimak?). Thence you'll go through the gap between it and Akutan Island, then eastward through the Northwest
Passage till you clear the Canadian Arctic archipelago, a distance of about 4K nautical miles, and from there to the southern tip of
Greenland which is about another 1,200 nautical miles, thence ENE 1,500 nautical miles to the coast of
Norway?
Well, my friend — the best of British luck to you! You will need it :-)!
I you'll develop a firm passage plan, c/w dates and anticipated running times, we will be glad to critique it for you and tell you where the hard spots are - the points where you may well come to grief, and just precisely whereof that grief will consist.
TrentePieds
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