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Anne & Peter Plant

Thank you so very much, Beautiful. What an experience.
Cheers

Alex Paquin

I have not read the book, but I certainly look forward to reading it this Easter holidays while floating in Paradise in Los Roques in Venezuela, aboard our own SIMPATICO, a 48´Amel Maramu ketch from 1981.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful book, even without reading it I think it is a fantastic gesture to share this with other sailors around the world.

Terry Mason

Hi John,

Thanks for your generosity; however, I tried to download the book twice and each time the download “failed” (Firefox). Any ideas?

John Harries

Hi Terry,

Almost certainly this was caused by a poor wifi connection. The book is quite large because of the high resolution photos so that it will take a while on slow WiFi and often fail. See if you can find a better WiFi or better still use a wired connection.

Marc Dacey

Mine worked on the latest Firefox. Thank you.

Jim Stevens

Thanks so much. I downloaded to iTunes then to my iPad. Cool!

Christian

Hi John and Phillis

Incredible photo and travel report on an exceptional journey !

Many thanks !
Christian

Neil McCubbin

Thank you for the book gift
DQOTD
I have iBooks on our iPad Air, but cannot find Voyage north there.
You mention clicking on picture on the right. How do I find it on the iPad?

John Harries

Hi Neil,

After the book downloads in the browser window, tap on the top right and a window will appear that will let you save it to iBooks.

Terry Mason

Got it! Thank you. I’ll read it tomorrow.

Bob Ramsay

Many thanks for your generous gift, I very much look forward to reading it.

Regards

Bob

Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina

Thank you very much for this beautiful gift. Its inspiring in many senses and worrying in others….
I am curious to know how these isolated communities get their energy (renewable?) and which is their perception on climate change.
I have made some web searching and couldn’ t find publications on the CAVIAR project. I would thank you a lot some links to related publications.
Your observations on unexpected wind blows were very interesting, which is the reliability of numerical weather predictions at these latitudes? Could polar orbiting sat pics obtained with systems such as Xaxero Skyeye be useful for nowcasting those conditions? Are these catabatic winds or related to other local phenomena?
And finally, how do they cook whale blubber? The photos reminded me of how we eat in Spain fried pork rinds (chicharrones) 😉
Sorry for the cascade of questions
Thanks a lot again and congratulations to all the team
Best
Iñigo

John Harries

Hi Iñigo,

  • I generally find the GFS pretty good in the north, but it won’t help with local weather like Katabatics, other than to warn one that a pattern is setting up that will support them.
  • I have never used Skyeye, so I simply don’t know. My guess is it might be useful, but one would need a lot of knowledge and experience to interpret the pictures.
  • There are several different types of violent winds that can affect Greenland waters including Katabatics (cold) and Foehn (warm) winds. I have experienced both, but have not ever found any useful way to forecast them.
  • Whale blubber is normally eaten raw.
  • Energy in northern isolated communities almost invariable comes from diesel generators. Not ideal, but hard to design a viable renewable system in a place with little or no sunlight for half the year.
  • No sure what’s going on with CAVIAR, but I think it is now over. I do know that Greta has moved on to other, although related, things.
  • I do know that everyone she interviewed was both stunned and deeply concerned by the level and speed of warming that they had observed in less than a generation.
Pete Worrell

John and Phyllis:

Wow those pictures make our hearts go pitter patter. And the perfect time of year for this kind of motivation. We are headed for the sounds on the South Island of NZ this week. When we return in mid April, Patience will be ready to be splashed and soon after that on her way to Halifax.

Thank you for such a thoughtful gift at the Spring Equinox!

Pete & Kareen Worrell
SV PATIENCE (Hood Pilothouse 51)

Neil McCubbin

Hi John,
I still. A not get a link to work in my iPad, despite several attempts
Could you post a link here that will work?

Thanks

John Harries

Hi Neil,

Posting another link is not going to help. I have just tested it for the third time on my iPad and it works fine. And many other people have also successfully downloaded it. There just is not a lot more I can do. I’m guessing that the problem you are experiencing might be due to slow WiFi. Also, it’s a big book. Are you waiting long enough? Could take 10 minutes or so on a slow connection.

You other option would be to download it onto a computer and then transfer it to your iPad.

Neil McCubbin

I just tried again. Worked fine this time, only a couple of minutes to download
Great book
The mystery remains why I had so much trouble

John Harries

Hi Neil,

Almost certainly WiFi issues. We get this all the time with the NCG and it has got a lot worse since everyone on the planet started streaming NetFlix.

Robert Snowsill

Thankyou for the gift we are in Italy and running low on English books to read so….. this gift is appreciated and sure I will enjoy
– Your book looks to be about a fantastic destination and amazing voyage.
Another month and we to will be back cruising the beautiful Med.

Odd Arne

Hi John and Phyllis

Thank you. You are my first source to cruising knowledge here in Norway. Have waited for a long time now to have our new Boreal on water. Therefore it has been so nice to have AAC to shorten the time. – And I like your humour; especially the recommendations for “those who want to be offshore voyagers, not marine electronics hobbyists” Think you teased many of us on that article, photographers included.

Best, Odd Arne

John Harries

Hi Odd Arne,

Thanks for the kind words on the site and congratulations on your new Boreal, it’s a great boat.

Me, a tease? Never.

As to the NCG, that is thanks to our secret weapon: Hans Jakob Valderhaug and Eli Husum!

Bob N

Thankyou. Beautiful and interesting.

Maddox

I am having trouble downloading to my iPad as well. Speedtest shows ~2mbps download – do you consider that “slow wifi?”

John Harries

Hi Maddox,

While 2mbps, is fairly slow, speed is not the only issue. If you are using a WiFi that is shared with a lot of other users that too can cause problems because WiFi is a fairly primitive protocol that does not handle multiple stations on the same frequency very well.

The bottom line is that the book does download fine to an ipad (I have tested it many times) so if it’s not working the WiFi is almost certainly the culprit.

Oguz Kunak

Thank you, John. This will go great with a full body red.

Andre

Thanks so much ! Took 4 seconds to download 🙂

Lorenzo

Thank you very much! Amazing pictures and inspiring journey!

PIERRE CUNY

Thank you. A nice gift for a newcomer like we are! Very much appreciated.

Pierre and Marie-Pierre

John Harries

Hi Pierre,

You are welcome, and thanks for joining.

Rolf

Hi John and Phyllis,

I just downloaded the ebook. Pictures look really great. I will read it this weekend.

Thank you very very much.

Best regards
Rolf

John Harries

Hi Rolf,

You are welcome, thanks for the thanks, much appreciated.

Reinhard Tvarocska

Phyllis and John,

many thanks for the nice welcome-gift.

Cheers

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