{"id":40785,"date":"2011-11-28T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T01:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=40785"},"modified":"2023-05-06T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T21:07:21","slug":"northwest-passage-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/destinations\/northwest-passage-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Passage (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Northwest Passage<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n
\n My wife, Gaynelle Templin (second from left), was part of the crew that helped guide Cloud Nine through the Northwest Passage on the boat\u2019s third attempt. So, too, were Chris Parkman (left), David Thoreson, and Doug Finley.<\/span>\n David Thoreson<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

Our crew consisted of Doug Finley, Chris Parkman, David Thoreson, Matt Drillio, and Gaynelle Templin. Gaynelle deserves special mention because we were married in March 1996, and she\u2019s become a regular crewmember on all_ Cloud Nine_ passages since that date. We met in 1994, and after making two passages together, the subject of marriage came up. We decided it was a good idea, although she insisted that part of the marriage contract had to be that I would take her around the world. I agreed, and the recessional at our wedding was \u201cAnchors Aweigh.\u201d Just two weeks later, we sailed east from Gibraltar, where_ Cloud Nine_ had spent the winter, thus beginning what was to be our west-to-east honeymoon circumnavigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

At the reunion, we reviewed the highlights of all three Northwest Passage endeavors. We made attempts in 1994 and 2005, both of which were turned back by ice, but the third, in 2007, was finally successful. Once we\u2019d transited the Passage\u2019s northernmost waterways, we recalled Chris\u2019 words when we were anchored in the shelter of Nunavak Island, in the Bering Sea, during a serious blow. At the time, we were quite secure, but the anemometer at the top of our mast was registering gusts over 50 knots from the south, the direction in which we were headed. Recalling that we\u2019d been stuck in Nome for nine days while waiting for the wind to drop below 30 knots, Chris said, \u201cI think we\u2019re better off here than in Nome. That island is bigger than Nome\u2019s breakwater.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Doug also made a memorable observation upon our approach to Kodiak, Alaska, near the end of the Passage run. \u201cWhat a nice way to get to Kodiak,\u201d he said, pausing a beat for emphasis. \u201cFrom Halifax, Nova Scotia.\u201d_ Cloud Nine_ became the first American sailing vessel in history to transit the Northwest Passage from east to west, pulling it off in one season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Find more of Cloud Nine<\/em>‘s adventures here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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