Fortune Harbour
For the first time since our arrival in Nuuk the heavens opened as we approached our anchorage north of Gillespie Island in Fortune Bay. Navionics iPhone charts were not optimistic about depth but the newest Navionics on the plotter suggested we would find enough water and, thankfully, the latter prevailed. We found a muddy bottom in 8m within a lovely tree lined cove sadly just a few yards from the last recorded 3G mobile signal. Therefore not quite the perfect anchorage - at least according to some definitions.
The rain died away and left us dozing the afternoon away on a hot and humid afternoon. I turned my hand to a bit of boat tinkering and tuned into the BBC's World Service Radio to keep me company whilst Sally, Joe and Mike went ashore to explore.
Whilst they were away a large black cloud appeared from nowhere bringing with it gusts and downdrafts of 28 knots which set SHIMSHAL spinning around her anchor. Fearful that they would get a soaking the shore team scampered back to the boat. There only discovery ashore seems to have been the Gillespie Cafe. The rain kept off but the temperature took a nose dive and when we put the dinghy away there was a chill in the air.
Sally and Simon left Scotland in 2015 on board Shimshal to begin a slow circumnavigation taking in various high latitude destinations. After 3 seasons in Greenland we sailed south to Lewisporte in northern Newfoundland. In 2019 we cruised the Canadian Maritimes. In 2022 & 23 we cruised via New England, Chesapeake, Florida, Cuba, Cayman, Providencia to Bocas del Toro. In late 2023 we transited the Panama Canal and in 2024 we sailed to French Polynesia via Galapagos.