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Question - | "What does having a dream mean to you?" |
Answer - | "A dream is a goal glimmering in the distance; it is an inner calling which, when accomplished,
serves as the rite of passage into wisdom." Erden Eruç - Sep 17, 2004 |
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Game plan...
December 14, 2007 - Day 158
If I can now follow the course on my chartplotter to Mooloolaba, with its long stretches of great circle lines, I have another 4,200nm to go. I will have go to where the counter current is weakest, a
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Beyond 5,000 nautical miles...
December 10, 2007 - Day 154
Including all the tangled yarn of a course that I followed in late November, the total distance my boat has traced on the Pacific Ocean is now over 5,000nm. That's a lot of mileage when compared
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It was a busy weekend (Part 3)
December 7, 2007 - Day 151
Every 45 minutes or so, the Masked Booby would stop the grooming, focus intensely looking forward, almost as if thinking. Then its tail would rise up, its chest would come down, and a substantial squ
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It was a busy weekend (Part 2)
December 6, 2007 - Day 150
As I rowed under the constant drizzle on Sunday morning, the gate popped from my port side oarlock. A pin holds the gate at one end, serving as the hinge; that pin had worked itself loose. Once the p
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It was a busy weekend (Part 1)...
December 5, 2007 - Day 149
Last Thursday, when I requested the wind forecast at 6.8N-159W, I noticed flavors of SE winds through Monday. Just to understand the conditions better, I asked the same for 8N-159W, and a similar for
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Flying fish are small...
December 4, 2007 - Day 148
Early on, I was getting flying fish on deck large enough to justify the work to clean them for breakfast. That was like Christmas presents which awaited me in the mornings -- would there be enough fi
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We need your help!
November 30, 2007 - Day 144
It has been a good crossing so far on the Pacific Ocean, except for the current trap, pun intended! Our charitable fundraising work at Around-n-Over continues and our resourceful volunteer team is gr
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It's a trap!
November 28, 2007 - Day 142
Well, it was great to make a decision, but a whole another story to execute it. We all thought that I would do an end run on the counter current from the north and carry on west. All I had to do was
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