We are still battling against the wind! Today we tried to sneak up an inlet today that, according to our charts, would have allowed us to make progress in the lee of some high ground. Unfortunately the charts were not correct and after six hours of pushing and pulling we ended up 930 precious meters ahead of where we started!
The bottom line is that rowing into a 30kt wind with our boat is not only impossible but also very dangerous as the sea has become really nasty.
Right … 12 MPH is the new 30 knots
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According to some warmists, the sea level is much much higher in some parts of the ocean compared to others. Maybe the rowing team are on the part of the Arctic sea that is at high altitude and so the wind is extreme up there. (Sounds stupid but alarmists believe this stuff -lol)
It appears the the second dumbest man on the internet is wrong when he claims that it has been ice keeping the rowers on shore.
Steve, if you’re able to, could you please explain to your low information readers what the green water contains.
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Are you really this slow or is it just an act?
I see. So you think their plan is row the Canadian Archipelago, while remaining in the McKenzie River Delta for the rest of the summer.
Did someone beat your head against the parking lot recently?
Have you and your cult have no shame by sending these ignorant guys to their crushing defeat?
A warped and twisted mind is no way to go through life Reggie.
August 9th is getting closer and Jenny Lind Island is looking forward to greeting them with a chilled grin:)
I don’t think he has claimed that. The ice is up ahead. They may never get that far if they stop rowing whenever it is windy.
And the rowers themselves know there is ice blocking them ahead. As they say on their site: “And the forced break may be a blessing in disguise too. Ice still blocks our route ahead and a strong blow is exactly what’s needed to break things up.”
RE: Reggie – “is wrong when he claims that it has been ice keeping the rowers on shore”
RE: The(non)Rowers – “Ice still blocks our route ahead”
The non-Rowers are wrong when they claims there is ice. Reggie is right.
I figured it out! They are using Microsoft Streets & Trips!
… or that famed Google Navigation app !
LOL:
They could be using an new app. Called ice free Arctic 2013.
It doesn’t matter where you navigate from it assures you there’s no ice in your path. And when You find sea ice or an iceberg well it doesn’t count as ice. Since the Ice Free Arctic App is always right. 🙂
Well we know who is the dumbest person on the Internet.
How does it feel to be infamous Reggie?
How does it feel to be disconnected from reality?
Does it actually hurt when you use both brain cells together?
What happened to your blowtorch prediction?
Goggle search for “dumbest man on the internet”
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Jim Hoft has the title locked up.
In the fact based universe, the North West Passage will be open even earlier than last year, but in the wing-nut alternative reality, it will be blocked with ice all summer.
The blowtorch prediction for the area around Tuktoyaktuk and Kugluktuk was first made two weeks ago and it did indeed melt out a lot of ice, especially south of Victoria Island. You certainly can’t deny that there were many temperature records broken in that area.
The weather has changed and there is a large high that is going to melt a lot of ice in the Beaufort and Eastern Siberian seas in the next ten days. While Steve is calling clouds ice, the rate of melting throughout the Arctic has been steadily increasing.
If I were you, I would find some place to hide before the rowers get back. They are going to be really pissed off that you were lying to them about this trip.
Despite the competition, the rowers better be careful to avoid those places where hot water boils up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMrxC-qEHb8
Looking at the size of the craft, and assuming two (2) rowers and (2) resting, this is a craft without much power. If it must fight wind, and even small chunks of ice, ….. well, the outcome is obvious.
If these Nitwits were FOLLOWING an icebreaker, they couldn’t row thru the broken ice.
It’s beginning to look like Reggie is their leader.
Good news Reggie, it’s warmed up considerably (69 degrees North).
Sounds like they are pulling the boat over land to move forward. I feel very, very sorry for the idiots (includes you reggie). They must be sooooo pissed of with reggies zof this world that persuaded them to do this trip. Oh boy are they going to be angry inside.
Outside it will have been a great success when the snows come in 3 weeks and they are airlifted away by a co² gorging machine.
You can assured about one thing and that is that this merry band of ‘rowers’ haven’t got blistered from rowing !
Apparently no-one told them you can guess wind speed from waves using the Beaufort wind scale.
I’m half-expecting their location tracker to suddenly show them hundreds of kilometers along their projected path.
Blowtorch over the pack. LOL
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