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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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    I am not a happy camper!    November 10, 2007 - Day 124
    "No complaining. No whining. No despair. Winds will blow. It is in their nature. They are pushing your boat back north, too bad. Try again later. December shows NE winds across the Equator west

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    Debate continues on the bird...    November 8, 2007 - Day 122
    The bird which I last reported on November 2nd and 4th was a gull, but there is not a consensus on which species yet. Gulls are coastal birds, and not a pelagic bird species, so we have on record an

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    I was down to 2 quarts of water!    November 7, 2007 - Day 121
    The last 4-5 days have been sunny, and finally the cabin is dry, the batteries are recharging, and I don't dread stepping outside. I am south of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) now, an

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    November wind charts...    November 5, 2007 - Day 119
    Thanks to the work by thirty-six 8th grade students at the Orrville Middle School in Orrville, Ohio, I now have the November QuikSCAT average wind charts for the ocean surface area between 5S-10N and

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    Shearwater, or not?    November 4, 2007 - Day 118
    On my last dispatch, I posted that a shearwater had befriended my boat, landing repeatedly on my starboard side to pick the bait fish. I am reminded that shearwater have a short black hooked beak, wh

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    Making friends on the way to the Equator...    November 2, 2007 - Day 116
    As of yesterday, the trip odometer on my chartplotter indicated that my boat had meandered past 4,000 nautical miles. I have 3,593 nm as the crow flies to reach Mooloolaba, and I am located 2,589 nm

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    Part 2 - Long road toward the educational mission...    October 30, 2007 - Day 113
    Christopher Beer gave me the best advice on that first day that I met him: "surround yourself with good people and the dream w

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    Part 1 - Long road toward the educational mission...    October 28, 2007 - Day 111
    I remember being bored in class when I was little, especially when the learning seemed to require memorization. History classes only peaked my interest if they talked about the people and their relat

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