Entering the White Sea
In the summer of 2000 Irene Campbell-Grin and her husband Gordon joined the Cruising Association’s (CA) Baltic rally in their Dutch-built 12m steel sailing boat, Fereale, which was also their home. Together with four other yachts they travelled north from St Petersburg through inland waterways, including the 227km Belomorsk Canal, constructed under Stalin and lined with human bones. They passed mass graves and a drowned village. An incident involving a drunken Russian, rescued by a CA yacht but then taken away, beaten and imprisoned, upset Irene and she was glad to finally enter the White Sea.
Gordon is twitchy about getting papers back. Together with Colin he
