AW: Greenland 2011 on inflatable catamarans

New set of sunset pictures - http://www.ducky.com.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1761#1761

AW: Greenland 2011 on inflatable catamarans

Great photos. A trip report (in German or English) would be nice!

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It will be together with video.

We have 500 GB photos and videos. It takes a time.

Map of visited area you can find here - http://www.my-road.info/showtrack.html?id=222

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one word: WOW

AW: Greenland 2011 on inflatable catamarans

naja wirklich schöne fotos aber auch wenn ich mal vor ewigkeiten russisch gelernt hab
kann ich damit nichmehr allzuviel anfangen. ^^

AW: Greenland 2011 on inflatable catamarans

You can use Google translator for Russian Internet pages. It doesn't perfect, but better than nothing.

AW: [GL] Greenland 2011 on inflatable catamarans

New set of pictures about Greenland's ice gletchers - http://www.ducky.com.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1777#1777

On picture below, on full resolution it's possible to recognize one of our catamarans ( on left side on the boundary between water and coast:

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New set of pictures:

http://ducky.com.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1781#1781

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Захватывающие снимки. Ждy описания!!!

Удачи Дакам и дальше

AW: [GL] Greenland 2011 on inflatable catamarans

Couple more pictures again - http://ducky.com.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1808#1808

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More pictures - http://ducky.com.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1834#1834

AW: [GL] Greenland 2011 on inflatable catamarans

amazing pictures

AW: [GL] Greenland 2011 on inflatable catamarans

Ja, schöne Fotos. Aber ich sehe hier keinen Reisebericht im Sinne dieses Forums

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geben wir ihm doch noch etwas zeit...
ich bin noch nicht fertig damit, das zeug vom wochenende zu verräumen, da hat man nach so ner tour bestimmt länger mit zu wursteln...

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I am still waiting for logs and pictures from all our team members.
Last 3 days I traveled from Stuttgart to Aalborg and back. Our equipment came back from Greenland.

For me will be simple to answer on your questions here.
What information about our trip will be interesting for you?
Equipment, financial, weather, team, ... ?

You can ask on German, but I can answer on English only.

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There is also another possibility.
We need to clean everything from Greenland's salt before winter.

We going to do this on Shluchsee. We will stay on lake 3 days - October 1st - 3rd.

This is a good possibility to take a look on our catamarans live, asked questions about sailing in Greenland, make a test drive on one of our boats.

You are welcome!

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Our team:

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Auch ich schließe mich an, sehr interessante Bilder. Trotzdem verstehe ich den dazugehörigen Text nicht. Probefahrt, Bilder vom Team, fragt uns nach Details...
Hört sich eher nach Reisebüro anstatt eines Reiseberichts an. Oder interpretiere ich das falsch?

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Ich weiß nicht wo das Problem ist? Bist jetzt hat hier noch keiner etwas erwähnt von wegen "übrigens, man kann unsere Boote auch mieten, schaut mal auf der Hompage X". Ich denke Sie wollen einfach von ihrer Tour berichten, nicht bzw. noch nicht in Form eines Reiseberichts, sondern eben in Form von einzelnen Fotos. Und dazu bieten sie an Fragen von Interessiereten zu beantworten bzw. sogar mal eine Testfahrt mit den Catamaranen zu machen falls man in der Gegend ist.

@Thread starter: Nice photos!

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I don't know, what will be interesting to you.

How much does it was? It was 512 euro per person - food, fuel, safety equipment and transport our things from Stuttgart to Tassiilaq. Plain tickets and couple nights in hotels, helicopter and boat transfers from Kulusuk to Tassiilaq and back was about 1300 euro per person.
We sailed one month. Full track was about 500 km.
We got couple ease mountains. We hadn't any special target on this area. Simple travel for fun. Fishing, taking photos and videos. Enjoy nature.

It wasn't any kind of sport or commercial travel. Everybody used own vacation for it.

Wasn't any accidents or dangerous situations. May be except one on starting when one of our catamarans was trapped(pressed) between two ice blocks.
We didn't expected that ice can move so fast and in different directions. We learned from this case it never happened for us again.

I am not sure, that I'll prepare day to day travel log. But I can answer on your questions.

I've started this topic, because this type of travel, on inflatable catamarans, very popular in ex Soviet Union countries, but unknown in West Europe.

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It would be interesting to know, how much experience the member of your team had before starting the tour. An another question could be, where it is possible to get this experience.

As a person who has never sailed, I cannot even imagine to participate once this kind of tours. But the pictures are so amazing, that it would be very nice to hear a bit more about the preparation and specific (water) aspects of your adventure. Thank you!

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We had two 5 years old catamarans - Ducky-19, models from 2006.
There was 3 peoples on each catamaran .
It's our standard pattern to travel in dangerous area.
One D19 can take 6 peoples in emergency situation.

My sailing experience is about 30 years.
We had 3 peoples with sailing experiences about 3-5 years.
All members had very big experience( from 10 to 40 years) of mountaineering and coexisting in small group. It's very important.

90% of our travel we used engines. Was no wind at all, or wind in fjord was direct against our moving direction.

We very afraid of Piteraq wind.
We had one person who did meteo-analyzes for us and send SMS with weather information and Piteraq warnings via Iridium satellite phone.

We had one satellite phone(Iridium),two marine hand-held radios (one with DSC controller), one PLB - http://www.fastfindplb.com/en/.

From sailing perspective our travel was easy. But this is a difference from other kind of travels. One group can have calm weather, another group on same place, but in different time, severe weather conditions.

There no specific experience on this type of travel. It's simple mix of experience of mountaineering, surviving in cold weather, sailing or driving motor boat.