Alas, setbacks both last summer and this summer have seriously delayed my departure. This summer – the 200th anniversary of the 1811 voyage – I reached only to St. Anthony, in northern Newfoundland. Problems with the transmission could not be resolved and I spent three months waiting on the wharf eventually for a new transmission. Discouraging but hopefully next summer will be the summer I’ll be able to sail down (north) the coast of Labrador in Canada to retrace the rermarkable adventure of an Inuk sea captain, his family and two missionaries who in 1811 sailed around the Labrador Peninsula to meet Inuit in Ungava Bay who’d never before seen Europeans.
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May the force be with you on your voyage. I look forward to your weekly updates. Barbara
Sounds like an adventure. Count me in for the updates too.
My sailing experience is somewhat limited to Scottish waters a long time ago. Looking forward to a virtual travel experience to Labrador… not been there yet!
Bonjour Dennison,
Here’s a link to Captain J.E.Bernier story told in a TV serie called Histoires Oubliés (Forgotten Stories) that sailed in the Arctic a 100 years ago. He was named KAPITAI KALLAC by the Inuits
http://www.histoiresoubliees.ca/article/kapitaikallak-je-bernier
Robert
Paris-Brest
I see you on Siitech arriving here in Havre-Saint-Pierre.If you need anything check me out, here in HSP.
Lionel
Hi Mr Dennison I hada short chat with you while you were tie’d up in LaTabatiere and I was just wondering how thing’s went after you left Tabatiere you told me you were going to try to git to Red Bay and Chateau Baie so I was wondering how thing’s went and if you made it to St Anthoney yet .Im just another curious sailor is all . Happy sailing Ellis
Have known you for many years and am always intrigued by your adventurous ways. A recent supper (Jan 2) with you in Bangkok reaffirmed what I have always suspected about you. I also love that word “serendipity” as it mirrors my reason for edging into my 80th year with confidence, excitement and determination to make every minute count. I am with you in Spirit since I cannot be there in person. For two reasons I am hoping to fly to Nain when you get there: to see you off on your memorable trip north and to visit Labrador for the first time. Then I will have visited every province and territory in Canada. One of my lifetime goals. And I have you to thank for that. BON VOYAGE and here’s hoping you meet as little ice as possible as you go over the brink! Or is it around?
What a life you lead! I am jealous. I have had a few bouts with the north and long to go back. Several outings in James and Hudson Bays, launching at Chisasibi, Wemindji, Eastmain. I sailed to Ivujivik on a Beneteau 21, from Chisasibi, and took a Nimble 25 pilot house to Innukjuaac from Wemindji. Neither was enough boat for the north. In Great Whale, our boat was robbed by a bunch of Inuit kids–one of whom drowned off the wharf later that day. It was terrible. My wife died the next year, of pancreatic cancer. Since, I have longed to go back. As I am planning on installing a woodstove in my Endeavor 32 (berthed Tenants Harbor, ME), I found your info about the Sardine you installed, thereby discovering you in the process…so glad I did!. Once I was locked in at Wemindji harbor for a month and burned 2×4 cutoffs from a housing project! (in a lousy dickinson Newport solid fuel stove…). I have always wanted to get back to the north–explore the Belchers, Ottawa Islands, the south coast of Baffin Island, etc.
I hope we run into eachother–always a free mooring, hot shower, and comraderie waiting for you here in Tenants Harbor.
Smooth Sailing
peter
Don’t suspect you are in Toronto at the moment but if you are let me know-I am here until 13.11.11 then back to the Motherland. Janice and I now own a campervan-currently stored in Vancouver-looking to pick it up in May 2012 to spend a year travelling around North America and hopefully Mexico.
Hope you are well.
Bob