Sailing and Ice

Today was a great day! We left Port Saunders and as we motored out of the bay we went up with full sails, well the main with 3 reefs but with all our sails. As soon as we turned out of the little bay we hit 30 kts and pounding rain and really got put through our paces making sure everything was tied down. It was great! We were able to fly along under nothing but sail until around 4 o'clock when the wind died, but we had 20-25kts almost all day. I drove for 3 or 4 hours too which was great, it finally felt like a sailing trip. Alex and I are on watch right now from 11pm-2am and just after we came on watch our first iceberg showed up on the radar! We found in on the thermal imaging/night vision camera that was installed on the boat too and it was soooooo COOL. It was also over a mile away, don't worry. Our current plan is to work up the Labrador coast and wait for clear weather to cross to Greenland. Be sure to follow along on the "Nordwind Tracker" on the left hand side of the page!