JANUARY 2016 http://www.yachtingmonthly.com 59ARCTIC PILOTAGEnorth. But an attractive fallback was in prospect, we would explore the upper reaches of Scoresbysund around Milne Land – and that was how I learnt the
lesson of collapsing icebergs! breaking up just as you get the anchor dug in is slight, so the drama when it came The statistical probability of a berg
had us frozen in fear and awe. The crack, whoosh and surge of water lifting the boat, then dropping her into a maelstrom of icy chunks as the berg capsized, left no-one in
any doubt. This was an anchorage that left a lot to be desired. Compounding matters, the charts were inaccurate, the plotter often putting us on land, and the seabed
sheered from no soundings to a clear view of the bottom within a few metres of the shore. We had made it through to Greenland but, for a time at any
rate, were wishing we were tucked up
My previous boat, the fi rst ever circumnavigation of Warming Island. The glacier Caelan, making
was once connected to the mainland iceOur anchorage became a dangerous place
when a berg chose to break up alongside Seafra