Jun 132014
 

Jayne and I are getting very excited about this summers sailing in Newfoundland and Labrador – just got a bundle of CHS charts and sailing directions from our friend Ross at nauticalmind.com as well as the latest ATL01 BSB charts on CD. We use a laptop chartplotter interfaced to the GPS, Radar and Autopilot – and us of course. The paper charts are always nice to have to keep an hour by hour plot or for use in the cockpit.

This year we also have a great new Vesper 8000 AIS – http://www.vespermarine.com/transponders/xb8000-ais-transponder.html/
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and an iPad air running Navionics. The Vesper creates a local wifi network and all of our on-board devices can access AIS and other information through it, even Jayne’s Mac Book Pro !

We plan to sail North from Phanty’s over winter site in Corner Brook on Newfoundland’s West Coast to Neddy Harbour, and hike the 7 hrs up to Gros Morne? From there it’s North, perhaps as far as Red Bay or Battle Harbour on the Labrador coast then South to St. Anthony – my  Mom and Sister Jennifer are there right now – visiting the place of Jennifer’s birth. Just spoke to them this morning, it’s a bit cool there still with some ice still in the harbour.

Posted the complete video from last years sail down the St Lawrence to Quebec and all the way out to Newfoundland – it plays for about 80 minutes and gives you a quick look at all the stops on that 1500 NM route, nauticalmind.com have DVD’s if you’d like to see it on the big screen in full HD

Mike

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