Sailing into Tolkein - a Greenland adventure

8:18 PM Tue 5 Oct 2010 GMT

'Bill Cook on Resolution in Greenland' .

His name is Cook and his ship is called Resolution. No, it's not Captain James Cook, and it's not 1767 - this is the tale of yacht designer Bill Cook and his yacht, also called Resolution, on their sailing adventure to Greenland this year. Bill Cook, Hyannis yacht designer, spent six weeks this summer on a 3,000-mile round-trip cruise to the country that still remains largely unknown to outsiders. Cook, of Barnstable, had sailed his boat, a sturdy Bristol 56 (built in Bristol, R.I., and 56 feet long), up to Greenland once before, in 2003. He was lured there by ...

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