Cruising Newfoundland

[mmd]

It seems to be a Newfoundland day for me today. I came across this website by a couple that spent four years cruising Newfoundland and Labrador. Click on the placenames on the map to see photos that they have taken in that region. I have been to many of the places on the island, but have not yet been so lucky as to have been to Labrador - yet. Francoise on the south coast of the island is one of my favourites.

http://www.wright-photo.com/newfound.htm

[Jeff Robinson]

There are some superb photos and landscapes in here - thanks for the reference.

I read Farley Mowat's book "The boat who wouldn't float", many years ago, and loved the thought of Newfoundland ever since. Beautiful.

JR

[Barry]

One of my best friends is spending the whole summer cruising the area. (I hate his guts! :mad: :D :D ).

This is his auto reply from his work email.
Awesome way to spend the summer.

I'm sailing from Maine to Newfoundland and Labrador, exploring at whim,
whatever looks good. We'll return via Chesapeake Bay in the beginning of
September.

I will check my personal email, when internet access in remote fishing villages is available. I'm not sure how frequent that will be.

I will not be checking work email or voice mail while on leave. Have a fantastic summer. My goals are to watch whales and seals, do some fishing,and avoid icebergs. Northen Lights on a clear night would be a bonus, it is a foggy area.

If today is...
June 7, I will have 91 days before I return to work...
June 30, I will have 70 days before I return to work...
July 4, I will have 66 days days before I return to work...
August 1, I STILL have 38 More Days before I return to work...
(I LOVE this!!)
September 1, I will have only 7 more whole free days before I return to
work...

Possible Route:
We go out from Wiscasset, ME, which is the town north of Bath...sailing east
and north, we'll probably be able to run parallel to land, about 100 miles
offshore, through Maine and out to Nova Scotia. If there are storms, we'll
hide out in Nova Scotia, and maybe even sneak up through the Bra'dor Lakes
region in the northeast.
(These are salt water lakes, fed from the ocean. I
saw 6 bald eagles in flight at one time there!)

(We may decide to swing by PEI along the way, I have the charts in my
kitchen...)

Then we'll head north to the southwest side of Newfoundland, going up the
west coast, exploring along the way. I think into the beginning of July
we'll be hanging out there. Then we go to the west over to Labrador, and as
far north as I can convince Cap'n Peter to go.

We'll then return to Newfoundland, and head east across the Northern parts
of the island. Heading south, and into the eastern portions. In the
southeast of Newfoundland there is a caribou herd I'd like to see.

Around the end of August we'll head out to sea and bring the boat to the
Baltimore area, and leave it there for hurricane season. Peter will head out
again in late fall, with a new crew.

And then I'll return to the office and my cubicle

[nedL]

Awsome pictures!! smile.gif

[Alan D. Hyde]

Thanks for a great link, mmd.

Oh, for some unfettered time, an able boat, and a cruise in such waters as these.

What a demanding but delectable world we can make for ourselves when underway!

Alan

[paladin]

it has been many, many moons ago....ssailed to St John's...went up signal hill (walked) and visited Marconi's lab (in those days the females between the ages of 16 and 25 outnumbered ALL male citizens 7 to 1)(that's really dangerous numbers...everyone of them looking for a husband) and then around the coast to St Anthony and over the top to Hamilton Inlet and down to Goose Bay...and back..up the coast to CutThroat Island, Saglek etc and then jumped off to Thule and around to Kulusuk on the eastern coast of Greenland..over to Iceland...to Faeroes..to Scotland, Ireland then on to Latvia...took 2 and a half years to get there...and almost got trapped in Latvia by a SWEET THING.....
In Latvia the local customs folks were very polite and nice...and put rotating armed guards on the boat, made them sit in the cold in the cockpit..I told the head fuzz I wasn't worried about theft and he smiled and said "we are" someone will steal your boat to leave the country".......inn those days a pack of Wrigleys would get a very fine meal anywhere and the would KILL for a pair of Levi's...... :D

[Bruce Hooke]

What an amazing place! Someday, someday, I WILL make it to the Labrador.

[ 08-13-2003, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Bruce Hooke ]

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