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June 25th, 2009
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I write these words with extreme caution, but today just very well might be “the” day. As of late last night the computer had been beaten into submission and Windows was accepting whatever we threw at it, in my case literally. We left it...
June 24th, 2009
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New Computer
I’ll keep this short and not so sweet; there‘s a reason five out of five crew members aboard Bagan have MacBooks…. The new computer arrived last night, the one we waited five days for, the one we paid a fortune to get up here and...
June 23rd, 2009
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Halifax Rain
Still in Halifax, which was more or less expected. When we left Newport we knew that there were still some jobs that needed to be attended to but also knew life would be a bit easier if not less expensive up here. We’ve been...
June 21st, 2009
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Halifax
Still in Halifax and most probably will be here for the next few days. We’ve been watching a system develop off-shore and last night it came ashore as a pretty fair n’or easter; driving rain, gusts 35 – 40 kts and all in all a good...
June 18th, 2009
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Four hours outside of Halifax and the weather holds; long, fat swells from the SSE, winds light & variable and not a cloud in the sky. Yesterday, as we made our way past the Bay of Fundy, we felt the influence of its legendary tides. We were...
June 17th, 2009
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Billy Black, taking photos and video, escorted us out past Castle Hill.
I’ve been looking forward to writing this first sentence for 18 months… “0800, slight swells from the south, winds light and variable and on our way to the Northwest Passage.”...
