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Dave Blandford's "Fiction" #123 off St. Anthony, Newfoundland
In September and October of 1997, Dave Blandford trailed this Shark out to Newfoundland
and solo circumnavigated the island!
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:52:33 -0400
From: Dave Blandford <fiction_1@yahoo.com>

Sorry for to extra long e-mail. As you see I've sent some pictures along. Hopefully you can use them as they are. I don't know too much about web sites so I am only assuming that you can simply take a picture out of an e-mail and plop it into one. The photos are of my trip around NFLD.

I took a quick flip through them and reinforced my original notion that I didn't have a whole lot of boat pics. Of course when you are sailing alone you rarely get a good vantage point to snap a photo of your own craft. I've got tonnes of scenary pics and pics of other boats but these are the best shark pics. If you can and want to use any or all of them feel free. If you want more or in a different format please let me know.

PIC #1: Fiction tied along side a fishing boat in Rocky Harbour (Gros Morne Nat. Pk.)
PIC #2: Fiction heading towards an ice berg just off St. Anthony.(picture above)
PIC #3: Fiction rafted off fishing boats in Change Island Tickle (a 'tickle' is a small waterway that divides an island)
PIC #4: Heading from Placentia to Burin. 54 miles (nautical) in under 8hrs (beam reach)
PIC #5: Fiction drying her spinnaker after a long foggy run in Grand Bruit (French for Great Noise so named because of the waterfall) Population 60-100 depending on the season.

I hope I have them in order! I'm still working on typing my diary into the computer so don't really have anything in the way of a story yet but hopefully soon. If nothing else perhaps we can meet at the Trillium or  something and hash out a few stories over a few rums!

and, in response to my enquiry "which way around did you go?":

Bill

I chose clockwise. I read an article that indicated that the wind would even itself out by the time you went all the way around but at that time of year the currents favoured a clockwise circumnavigation.

djb