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 | Doesn't look like we will have a crew for a NWP 2012... so we will cruise the USA inner waterways and if a crew does not come forward by December 2012 we will head for the Canal to get around to Astoria Oregon for Alaska in 2013. Website: www.greygooseadventures.com - check the sidebar for Voyages etc.
I'm looking forward to following your NW Passage voyage in 2012 onward to Alaska - smooth seas,
Doug
M/V GREY GOOSE
| Chris & Jess's Reply (8th May 12)G'Day Doug! What a shame you wont be making it through the passage this season.. I thought you had some people lined up! Anyway, you sail plans sounds amazing for this Summer, just reading about it all on your website WOW! Should be awesome! Maybe we'll meet in Alaska 2013?? Keep in touch! |
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| Hello (Chris Altass - 5th May 12)Hi Chris and Jess, hope all is good with you both, not sure if you remember me but I helped Bill here in Halifax fiberglass the keel of the Teleport. I have been following your journey and enjoy the amazing photos.
Maybe someday we will meet again but in the mean time please keep up chasing your dreams and sharing them with all of us.
Chris Altass | Chris & Jess's Reply (7th May 12)Hi Chris! For sure we remember you! Your the reason our boat's keel is so strong still!!! Thanks for following and still keeping in touch! Hope things are well with you in Halifax! I wish so much that Halifax was on the way to Vic Island so we could come back and say G'day to all the friends that we made! One day we'll be sure to sail back!! Thanks again, Cheerio, |
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| Can't wait for the next update (Greg & Cyndy Turner - 5th May 12)Hey guys, we love your blog posts and your videos are spectacular we can't wait for your adventure to re-commence. The quality of your work and the ease at which you present your videos - have you been offered any TV contracts (Discovery Channel or the like?) I would have thought that someone would be making a 6 part doco by now. Love your work.
GT & Cyndy Turner
Gold Coast, Australia | Jess's Reply (7th May 12)Hey! Thanks so much for your message! No offers from Discovery or Nat. Geo or anything like that :( We did have some one that wanted to stick a camera crew on our yacht to film us... but three is a crowd on the 29ft yacht so we said no! ha ha ha! Maybe at the end of the journey we can self produce a feature length film or something fun!! Thanks so much for your support! And hopefully there will be a few more cool videos this season as we invest in a few new go-pro's and microphones! Cheerio, |
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| (VitaApteka - 4th May 12) - Re: News item 'Jess's Update'Аптека: продам сиалис, левитра где купить, сиалис в минске, виагра таблетки действие, лечение левитрой, продажа дженерик сиалис, курс лечения сиалис, сеалекс сиалис, купить виагру в киеве, эффект сиалис, купить сиалис в одессе. |
| very impressed! (Pieter de Liagre Bohl - 1st May 12)Hey guys,
A quicky. Just watched your videos and loved them. My girlfriend and I bought a Valiant 37 last year and just sailed around Vancouver Island and hope to go down to La Paz this Summer and on to Europe. Very much impressed how entertaining you made the videos and the balls on the two of you (that didn't come out quite right) for daring the passage. I enjoyed reading "North to the Night" if you havent read it, do. I am off for 2 months of bottompainting and the likes and hope to see you around august in Victoria. Hurry up:) | Jess's Reply (7th May 12)Hi Pieter!
Thanks for your lovely message!! I LOVED the book 'North to the night', what an amazing story eh? I think we anchored in the same spot that he wintered over in, it was such an amazing and humbling experience to think that he endured winter in that spot!! It was one of our favourite anchorages!! The Valiant 37 looks like a great sturdy yacht, if you get a blog and few videos together we would love to watch them, make sure to send us the web link:) Keep in touch, and have a safe journey this summer! |
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| North Atlantic 29 (Dawn Smith - 20th Apr 12)Hi
I am preparing for a solo non stop circumnavigation, hopefully in a junk rigged boat. I really like the idea of the steering cabin with the twin rotating Hasler hatches, but having searched on line cannot find any actual detail or photos of this aspect of the NA29. Would it be possible for you to send me a photo(s) so I can see how this is incorporated? How you access from the cockpit and how the lines are controlled. Do you stow halyards on reels or use rope bags? Any information would be most helpful. Hope to hear from you.
All the best with your voyage.
Dawn | Chris & Jess's Reply (7th May 12)Thanks very much for writing to us Dawn. I have written back to your email account! Cheerio, |
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| Hey guys great website (John Elam - 15th Apr 12)I am about to start a sail with some friends from Chicago out the Saint Laurence Sea way down the the Caribbean and back up. I am hoping to film some of the trip and as the quality of your footage is amazing I was wondering what type of camera you all use on your trip.
good luck and cool website
-john | Chris & Jess's Reply (15th Apr 12)Hi John,
Your sailing plans sound amazing! You should have plenty of filming and photo oppertunities with all the places you'll be visiting!
We used the Canon 7D and 1DMKIV, the Canon DSLR's are fantastic for shooting good quality HD video on. I would also recommend to get a go-pro or two, we had one stuck to the end of a pole to capture the underwater footage and we had another one stuck on our arch. They are fantastic little versatile good quality cameras.
Look forward to seeing some of your videos.
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| Current position and google earth (Mike - 10th Apr 12)The google earth images are up to date, 2012... I am pretty sure if you zoom all the way in on the current position you can see the boat :) | Chris & Jess's Reply (11th Apr 12)It's kinda hard to really tell hey... Is it? That'd be awesome! =) |
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| Message Subject (robert - 9th Apr 12)hey you sailed close by...i live in the baie des chaleurs region quebec..well not that close but still..two thumbs up to both of you..northern passage..wow what a dream...maybe someday.. |
| "Don't forget to pack your woolies"... You're the best!
Cheers |
| Message Subject (Hay Janssen - 1st Apr 12)Hi! Due to regular problems with my Sabb I was looking for a fellow-sufferer. The next thing I found was you're adventure! Exciting! What a nice boat and smart rig! Enjoy the trip, I'll enjoy you're site. |
| GREAT JOB LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE OF YOUR JOURNEY! | Chris & Jess's Reply (26th Mar 12)Thanks! So are we =) haha |
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| Your Canada north adventures (Rob vatcher - 23rd Mar 12)hi again I guess it's soon time to get your heads around the next stage of the NWP.
accurate charts might be hard to come by, but I know that Canadian hydrographic did a few surveys back in the sixties, probably of the most likely sea routes. I know that air surveys were done earlier but some of the info generated was pretty sketchy. I remember looking for a specific island for an oil outfit back in the eighties only to find nothing but water. On future investigation the air survey had mapped a large (Prince Edward Island sized) dust covered piece of ice! I still have the chart with the ghost island. it is a silk U.S. Air force survival map with tide, current, and topo information on it. your trip from Cambridge will take you past some interesting sites, Paulatuck a small hamlet on the mainland that is hard to misidentify for the tail of a c130 hurc sticking up from the water of the bay ( an ice landing gone bad) or the smoking hills an exposed sulfur seam on the beach further along the coast and the pingos of Tuck (frost heaves) that stick up about 100ft, and a real nightmare when trying to fly around in bad weather. Gosh I must still be missing the arctic, even after 25years, well enjoy. | Chris & Jess's Reply (26th Mar 12)Hi Rob, Thanks for your message! Yeah, I'm so excited to continue our voyage this year - sounds like some facinating places ahead. Where exactly are these sulfur steam vents? They sound interesting. We were hoping to explore along the S coast of Banks island a bit before nipping back to the mainland, so we may miss Paulatuck unfortunately. But i'll mark it anyway in case we can, thanks! It'd be fun to lower a camera into the water around the herc wreck! Do you have a photo or scan of that crazy island on the map? That'd be facinating! We certainly saw several huge hunks of dirt covered bergs that looked identical to solid land to us when we sailed up Greenland! Keep in touch! Cheers.
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| Engine Run Time (Richard Price - 20th Mar 12)Just curious from your start in Halifax to current location, approx how much engine time was logged on Teleport and how much diesel have you gone through? Thanks |
| With regard to sailing to Russia, you might want to have a look at 'Over the top' by Adrian Flannagan. It took him about 2 years to get permission! | Chris & Jess's Reply (20th Mar 12)Thanks Peter. Yes it seems there's a lot of red tape to cut through, but I'm sure the rewards will be worth it =) We're just about to get stuck into it. Thanks for the tip. |
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