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Re: Deviation Card with GPS
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2006 Jul 25, 21:38 -0500
George wrote:
> Just a thought about another possibility. I know little about
> Frobisher Bay, but wonder if there might be strong tidal currents
> though the channel he refers to. His experience sounds uncannily like
> one of mine.
Robert responds:
Indeed there are very strong tidal currents, especially in constricted
channels. Tidal range is 39 feet at springs.
George wrote:
> Is it possible that was happening in Frobisher Bay? I recall reading
> accounts of Hudson having that sort of problem in Hudson Strait, and
> Davis, just off Resolution I., but Robert's experience was at the
> entry to the upper bay, where the currents might be much weaker.
Robert responds:
I thought about that, but the trouble started after we got spit out of the
channel and entered into Upper Frobisher where the current dropped off to
something manageable. The currents and tide rips off Resolution Island and
between the northern tip of Labrador and the Button Islands are brutal on
small vessels. The weather is equally horrible.
George wrote:
> However, now we know it was in Frobisher Bay, the other hypothesis,
> about magnetic disturbance, shows more promise. It took its name from
> Martin Frobisher, who in the late 1500's claimed to have discovered
> gold, and shipped back to England hundreds of tons of what turned out
> to be "fool's gold" or iron pyrites. In the end, it was used for
> surfacing roads. Could there have been such a deposit, under the
> channel that Robert was passing through?
Robert responds:
You never know George, but I would have to go back to that exact spot and
try to see what happens. I don't usually use the main shipping channel but
the lesser channel to the west. Last time I went through there I never
experienced any problems.
As for poor Martin Frobisher, he always gets ridiculed for bringing back
fool's gold, but from what I understand, the assayer who looked at his first
batch, told him it was gold, so Frobisher brought back lots more. In any
case, what the man accomplished in terms of voyaging in extremely dangerous,
hostile and unknown waters and getting back to England alive, makes him a
pretty accomplished man in my opinion!
Robert
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From: Robert Eno
Date: 2006 Jul 25, 21:38 -0500
George wrote:
> Just a thought about another possibility. I know little about
> Frobisher Bay, but wonder if there might be strong tidal currents
> though the channel he refers to. His experience sounds uncannily like
> one of mine.
Robert responds:
Indeed there are very strong tidal currents, especially in constricted
channels. Tidal range is 39 feet at springs.
George wrote:
> Is it possible that was happening in Frobisher Bay? I recall reading
> accounts of Hudson having that sort of problem in Hudson Strait, and
> Davis, just off Resolution I., but Robert's experience was at the
> entry to the upper bay, where the currents might be much weaker.
Robert responds:
I thought about that, but the trouble started after we got spit out of the
channel and entered into Upper Frobisher where the current dropped off to
something manageable. The currents and tide rips off Resolution Island and
between the northern tip of Labrador and the Button Islands are brutal on
small vessels. The weather is equally horrible.
George wrote:
> However, now we know it was in Frobisher Bay, the other hypothesis,
> about magnetic disturbance, shows more promise. It took its name from
> Martin Frobisher, who in the late 1500's claimed to have discovered
> gold, and shipped back to England hundreds of tons of what turned out
> to be "fool's gold" or iron pyrites. In the end, it was used for
> surfacing roads. Could there have been such a deposit, under the
> channel that Robert was passing through?
Robert responds:
You never know George, but I would have to go back to that exact spot and
try to see what happens. I don't usually use the main shipping channel but
the lesser channel to the west. Last time I went through there I never
experienced any problems.
As for poor Martin Frobisher, he always gets ridiculed for bringing back
fool's gold, but from what I understand, the assayer who looked at his first
batch, told him it was gold, so Frobisher brought back lots more. In any
case, what the man accomplished in terms of voyaging in extremely dangerous,
hostile and unknown waters and getting back to England alive, makes him a
pretty accomplished man in my opinion!
Robert
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