Author and Journalist Cameron Dueck is speaking at 7:30 tonight (April 12th) at Ashbridge’s Bay Yacht Club about his experience transiting the Arctic. We’ll be there too with copies of his new book, The New Northwest Passage. [Facebook Event] An excerpt from his talk is below.
Our first encounter with ice caught us by surprise. First a small piece bobbed by, and then a second, and then we were in the thick of it. We had to drop our sails and start the engine to allow us to stop on a dime, reverse and carefully inch our way around the ice floes. I sent crew up the mast to look for clear lanes of water through the ice floes. If we were careless or luck turned against us, the ice could easily crush our fibreglass hull and sink us, leaving us precious little time to move from the frigid water into our life raft.
