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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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    Watermaker is working...    January 19, 2009 - Day: 4 (1.2269S, 146.9071E)
    As soon as I got some sun on the first day, I tested my electric desalinator. This watermaker is a great convenience when it works, otherwise I have to use a handpump to produce fresh water from the

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    Rabaul is on the cards...    January 17, 2009 - Day 2 (0.7927S, 145.4846E)
    Since the successful put-in two nights ago by captain Hermenio Fotanilla of GLAXINIA owned by Frabelle Fishing Corporation, life

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    Deployed at sea...    January 15, 2009 (0.0263N, 144.6143E)
    Today at 10:50 UTC (19:50 local time) on Jan 15, 2009, I was lowered from GLAXINIA and released at sea. Considering the prevailing swells, we had deployed about half mile NW of my target.

    I man

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    We left Lae...    January 13, 2009
    Today at around noon local time, GLAXINIA pulled anchor and we left the port of Lae. All that waiting game was over. "Estimated time of arrival, Thursday 1400 hours," announced Captain Hermenio Fota

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    Now waiting on GLAXINIA...    January 11, 2009
    On Thursday, we tied alongside the sister ship GLAXINIA to transfer the fishing net in need of mending from our hold. This was a long process, suspended a few times due to heavy rain. Using booms on

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    Almost done in Lae...    January 8, 2009
    Tuesday morning I woke up with the siren sound coming from the engine room. These sounded whenever it was time for VANILLA to move. I could feel the gentle rumbling of the chain links coming up one

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    Arrival at Lae, and about Antipodes...    January 5, 2009
    We set course due west for Lae by the late morning on Sunday. There was a lightning storm to our south at night making for a good show, which even lit up the skies overhead a few times. The long dec

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    Interesting start to the New Year...    January 4, 2009
    On Wednesday as the sun went down, VANILLA passed by the same location where I was last May between Manu Island and the Ninigo Group atolls, where I had come to within 135 nm of the port of Wewak when

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