One of the most spectacular sailing passages of the world is that through Prins Christian Sund. This is a series of linked glacier-cut fiords running for about 100 kilometres between southwest Greenland and the east coast. It enables vessels to bypass the fearsome Kap Farwel at the extreme southern tip of Greenland (a 100nm avoidance zone is recommended if rounding the Cape to seaward, so nipping behind it through the fiords is a considerable saving, and much safer). And it is amazing, mountains soaring to nearly 2000m straight out of the sea, glaciers, icebergs, snow and ice and a flat calm sea. A truly astonishing place, especially in good weather. Here are a few views to give the idea:
At the eastern end is a Danish weather station where we were hoping to get a really good forecast to send us to Iceland. Unfortunately it had been automated, so no dice. Back to the Iridium grib files and crossed fingers - that didn't work, the passage being memorably horrible.
