Monday, June 20th, 2005
We were approaching the area where the North Atlantic ocean floor rises up to meet the continental shelf, just South of the Grand Banks, which are even shallower. The geography of the sea floor and the meeting of the Labrador Current and the remnants of the
Gulf Stream create an upwelling ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
The sailboat’s compass glowed red in the 3 AM darkness. Quetzal, a late ‘80s Kaufman & Ladd 47 foot monohull, purpose built for the Bermuda race she had won, sliced through the
North Atlantic almost silently. The cloudy skies blotted out the blanket of stars in the moonless sky, but their ...
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