Chukchi Sea weather optimum for making good sea progress into Arctic Alaska - BUT WILL ROWBOATS MAKE THE DISTANCE?

ROWING ICE (http://charleshedrich-nordouest.blogspot.fr/)

  Start: 20130701 at position 65.6125N 168.0885W

  Updated: 20130715 at position 69.1333N 166.2333W

  Distance traveled: 216 nautical miles

  Elapsed time: 14 days (336 hours)

  Speed made good:  0.64 nm/hour

  Distance to go to Cambridge Bay: 1401 nm

  Estimated hours enroute:  2189 hours

  ETA Cambridge Bay: + 91 days or about October 13th 2013.

  SUGGESTION: WINTER OVER INUVIK, TUKTOYAKTUK OR CAMBRIDGE BAY - START MAKING PLANS TODAY!

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ARCTIC JOULE (http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/)

  Position1: 69.40178 -133.11885 @ 20130709 4:27:56 PM

  Position50: 69.96834 -133.14664 @ 20130715 1:24:59 PM

  Distance between points: 34 nm

  Elapsed time: 141 hours

  Speed made good: 0.78 kts/hour

  Distance to go to Pond Inlet: 1,408 nm

  Estimated hours enroute: 1,805 hours

  ETA Pond Inlet: +75 days or about September 28th 2013

  SUGGESTION: PICK UP THE PACE TO REACH GOAL EARLIER ELSE BE PREPARED FOR EARLY SNOW, FREEZING TEMPERATURES AND DARKNESS.

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Cape Beaufort to Point Franklin (PKZ230)

Synopsis...HIGH PRESSURE NORTH OF THE EASTERN ARCTIC COAST WILL PERSIST THROUGH TUE. A 994 MB LOW SOUTH OF WRANGEL ISLAND WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN. A WEATHER FRONT STRETCHING FROM THIS LOW OVER THE NORTHERN CHUKCHI SEA TO KOTZEBUE TO THE YUKON DELTA WILL MOVE EAST TO BARROW TO BETHEL BY 4PM MON AND TO PRUDHOE BAY SOUTH BY 4PM TUE. 

Today: S winds 15 kt. Seas 5 ft. Fog. Rain.
Tonight: S winds 15 kt. Seas 5 ft. Fog.
Tue: SE winds 15 kt. Seas 4 ft. Fog.
Tue Night: S winds 15 kt. Seas 3 ft. Fog.
Wed: S winds 20 kt. Seas 4 ft. Fog.
Wed Night: SW winds 20 kt. Seas 4 ft. 
Thu: SW winds 10 kt. Seas 3 ft. 
Fri: SW winds 10 kt. Seas 3 ft.

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CANADA

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FQCN54 CWNT 151300 Extended marine forecasts for the Western Arctic waterway issued by Environment Canada at 7:00 a.m. MDT Monday 15 July 2013 for Wednesday Thursday and Friday. The next scheduled forecasts will be issued at 7:00 p.m.

Tuktoyaktuk - southern half. 
Wednesday..Wind northeast 20 knots. Thursday..Wind east 20 knots diminishing to light late in the day. Friday..Wind east 15 knots diminishing to light late in the day.

Tuktoyaktuk - northern half.
Wednesday..Wind east 15 knots diminishing to light in the morning then increasing to east 20 late in the day. Thursday..Wind east 20 knots increasing to east 25. Friday..Wind east 25 knots. 

Baillie. 
Wednesday..Wind light. Thursday..Wind light becoming east 15 knots. Friday..Wind east 20 knots.

Baillie: Ice Conditions

http://weather.gc.ca/marine/iceConditions_e.html?mapID=05&siteID=00600&stationID=

Ice Forecasts Issued 10:00 AM EDT 15 July 2013

Today Tonight and Tuesday

Ice Edge

Ice edge is outside the forecast region.

Ice Coverage 4 tenths of first-year ice except 9 tenths of first-year ice
including a trace of old ice in the eastern section.