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PW full using aux genset heat to make potable water.
8 POB All Well

Out of time to wait further during minimum sea ice season without better sea ice charts from Canada Ice Service.



Distance To Go:
DTG1: Depot Bay Fort Ross to Cambridge Bay 650 nm
DTG2: Cambridge Bay to Nome 1,660 nm
DTG3: Nome to Dutch Harbor 644 nm
DTG4: Dutch Harbor to Astoria OR 1,703 nm
TOTAL: 4,657 nm (Mercator sailings)

Port Kennedy, Bellot Strait, Nunavut
72.0167° N, 94.2000° W

2019-09-10 Tue  5:45 AM EDT   0.97 meters  Low Tide
2019-09-10 Tue  7:00 AM EDT   Sunrise
2019-09-10 Tue 10:58 AM EDT   1.43 meters  High Tide
2019-09-10 Tue  5:12 PM EDT   0.73 meters  Low Tide
2019-09-10 Tue  9:24 PM EDT   Sunset
2019-09-10 Tue 11:57 PM EDT   1.86 meters  High Tide
2019-09-11 Wed  6:24 AM EDT   0.92 meters  Low Tide
2019-09-11 Wed  7:05 AM EDT   Sunrise
2019-09-11 Wed 11:42 AM EDT   1.52 meters  High Tide
2019-09-11 Wed  6:01 PM EDT   0.67 meters  Low Tide
2019-09-11 Wed  9:18 PM EDT   Sunset
2019-09-11 Wed 10:56 PM EDT   Moonrise

Options to transit Bellot Strait will depend on catching a favorable low slack tide to ride the flood from the west entrance through Bellot Strait (tide station: False Strait) to visit the east side of Bellot Strait in order to sign the guest log in the Hudson Bay Company outpost cabin at Fort Ross (tide station: Port Kennedy) which is considered as much a part of local history of the NW Passage as visiting Beechey Island. To transit west through Bellot Strait I recommend catching the high tide at Depot Bay aka Port Kennedy and riding the decending tide west to False Strait. Expect 5 knots of tidal current, hence a speed of greater than 7 knots will be necessary to maintain directional control.

DEPARTURE 20190911-1200 hours on high tide ebbing West at Port Kennedy to False Strait then to Cambridge Bay.

Weather check:

Larsen

Issued 05:30 PM EDT 11 September 2019
Winds
Tonight and Thursday. Wind light becoming southeast 15 knots after midnight. Wind east 15 Thursday.
Waves
Tonight and Thursday. Seas 1 metre building to 2 after midnight.
Weather & Visibility
Tonight and Thursday. Fog patches dissipating Thursday evening.
Air temperature
Tonight and Thursday.Temperatures near plus 3.