Uunartoq 60:30N 45:19W

Millybrown
Mark Hillmann
Sat 9 Aug 2008 15:39
Another Greenlandic anchorage. 
 
 
 This one at a little island with a "hot tub". 
 Only a warm tub really, with a couple of colder ones further down the hill that the kids ran down to. 
 
Those are icebergs in the background and Sigrit did get a photo of me in there as well, but you do not linger between the changing hut and the pool.   
 
This pool is mentioned in the Sagas, so has been in use for 1,000 years.
 
 
 
 
When we got back to the boat Helgur said could he try fishing.  In Scotland the crew often give up after the third attempt with no fish.  Greenland is different.  We put out the line with feathers and half a dozen hooks and after 10 minutes Helgur was winding in a small cod. 
 
We were already heating water for the rice and Sigrit had got out a tin, as we did not believe the fish would come.  I got the knife and board out in the cockpit and before gutting was finished, another larger cod was hauled in.  Head off that and hooks back in the water as a salad was chopped up.  The third even larger cod soon followed and Helgur started cooking them.  With a bottle of wine it was a real banquet. 
 
 
 It was all cooked on a primus stove mounted on a board on top of the gimballed cooker.
 We have not been able to get gas in Greenland and have one full bottle left which we are keeping for the crossing to Newfoundland.  We have both camping gas (UK & Europe) and Primus gas (Scandinavia & Iceland), but are too mean to buy a third type that also may be different to the US & Canada. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This morning banks of mist have been coming and going with a good little sailing breeze sometimes. 
 
It looks very scenic and with someone on deck and the chart plotter telling us exactly where we are, the ice still seems no problem.