In the ice (Patreon)

Hi! We wanted you to be the first to know, yesterday afternoon we broke through the ice into the bay where we're going to overwinter. We pushed and rammed ourselves through a stretch of maybe half a mile.

The ice is thicker here than we thought and we could not get all the way to the exact spot that we wanted. At some point ramming into the ice got a bit too sketchy for our liking. We are not afraid about the hull integrity but the problem was ice chunks hitting the propeller, and damaging the propeller or drive shaft would be bad.

Anyway, this spot here is OK as well. As you might see in the photos, on our port side the ice is easily thick enough to support a person's weight. On starboard side not yet. There are also big patches of thin ice around so it will be a while before we can walk without worries. For now drysuits are mandatory and it's only short walks close to the boat .

Photos: The drone shots are from our way in while the darker crappy quality shots are from the final location. The open moat you see is where we tried to ram through before giving up and turning the boat to face the prevailing winds.

We feel confident in our choice of the location,but despite all the preparations and research that we've done I have to say there is a slight feeling of nervousness knowing that there is now no way back and no other way out except to wait until the spring. In around 3 months this location will be reachable from the closest town (Sisimiut) by snow mobile, and we'll likely have some locals stopping by on their hunting/fishing trips, but until that it's just the three of us (if you missed the last post; we have a Greenland dog called Nova with us).

There's a lot to do to make the boat ready for the winter and we need at least a week to run through our whole list. I'll keep you updated...

Thanks once again for the support!
PS. The next NWP video will be out as an early release for you at the latest this weekend. Some of the upcoming PUBLIC videos might have advertisement integrations so I encourage you to check here on Patreon for the ad-free version! (and then you don't have to deal with the Youtube ads either).
PPS. The tracking map for Patreons is here: https://share.garmin.com/mapshare/alluringarctic . password: "patronsonly". Click "View all tracks" in upper right corner to view the full track. HOWEVER, Garmin currently has a problem with their website and the map is often not working. You can try to clear browser cache or use another browser (or another device). Unfortunately this issue is fully with Garmin, I've contacted their support to fix it but they have not even given me a reliable timeline for the fix. Thumbs down for Garmin...