T&T: Northwest passage

[Jim Ague]

> Is the Northwest passage really open ?  I know the ice coverage maps
> shows the area north of Canada open during the summer months,  but
> does that really mean that one could motor or sail from the Pacific
> to the Atlantic above Canada ?

Check the Passagemaking Under Power archives in the 2006 timeframe, 
http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/ or
 http://www.idlewildexpedition.ca/

Some crazy Canadian rancher had a trawler built, went north on some river 
from central Alberta, occasionally having to portage the trawler (it had 
wheels) to somewhere above Alaska, went west to a certain longitude to allow 
circumnavigation at the end, then headed east through th NW passage, down 
along Greenland, around Cape Town Africa, Australia, then back up to 
Vancouver, completing circumnavagation.

Yes it can be done, and a lot more.

-- Jim Ague