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January 14th, 2010
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As promised, I’ve a few new announcements regarding the future of The Northwest Passage film and Hole In The Wall Productions in general. While some of these announcements are still in their infancy and I’m guarding them with cautious optimism...
December 11th, 2009
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It’s been a little over a month since we landed in Seattle and while things have slowed down for us considerably, we’re not without some great news. First, the crew:
Dominique is aboard Bagan, running the program from Seattle. Bagan came...
November 9th, 2009
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We saw Russia and the U.S. at the same time and came within 900 miles of the North Pole. We visited Greenland and Alaska in the same summer & on the same boat. We saw the water temp go from 70 degrees to 30.5 We dodged icebergs in two major...
November 6th, 2009
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Today, at 5:30 PST, we tied up to the docks at Elliot bay Marina, shut down the engine on Bagan, and officially finished what we started out June 16th from Newport, RI to do. We traveled to, transited through and came back from The Northwest...
October 26th, 2009
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As planned we all took our respective breaks, heading off to various parts of the country. This afternoon, with renewed energy, we gather back aboard Bagan to start the final 650 mile push to Seattle tomorrow morning. During my break I tried...
October 9th, 2009
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Arrived today in Ketchikan, AK. This is where Bagan will rest for a few weeks while we all go and try to regain some energy and sanity. It’s been a long, amazing haul and the end, Seattle, is almost in sight as from here we have about 650 more miles...
October 4th, 2009
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In order to catch favorable currents we left Sitka pre-dawn this morning and had a nice calm day of powering to where we sit now, a stunning anchorage called Takatz Bay, tucked way back on the east side of Baranof Island. Our two days in Sitka...
September 27th, 2009
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We’re sitting nicely to our anchor in Garden Cove on Hinchinbrook Island surround by mountains deep in pines with small pockets of snow. After spending a few months above the Artic Circle, trees are one thing I’ll never take for granted again...
September 24th, 2009
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On September 18th we pulled into Humboldt Harbor on Popof Island, feeling every bit the stranger in a strange land. This small, tucked in harbor was all but filled with fishing vessels of every length and description going. Docking...
September 18th, 2009
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Before we left Newport last June someone asked me if the thought of trying to transit the Northwest Passage worried me. My answer received no hesitation when I responded, “Yup, but not as much as the Bering Sea.” Throughout maritime history...
