Rowers should go home to their families. The clouds have finally cleared, and there is no Northwest Passage.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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The northwest passage may be ice choked but it is no match for Reggie’s “mother of all” blow torches which will melt that worthless, slushy, decayed and rotten first year ice in a blink.
Come on Reggie … show that infidel Steven what you’ve got!!
There was some rumor that Reggie’s Brawndo fueled Blowhard Blowtorch had packed it in after some soft of accident involving candy?? Something like that anyway.
Thus it seems safe to declare Reggie’s model/scenario of the 2013 rapid and complete melt of the Arctic ice a total failure. Reggie’s Arctic ice melt model is just like every other climate model out there, a total failure.
sort of accident…. a 5 min edit window would save me from these typos…
One way or another they will claim victory for some reason or another.
Debating them is like playing chess with an Australian Galah. No matter how good you are at chess, the Galah just knocks over all the pieces, craps on the board, and struts around the table looking victorious.
Take it easy on the Galah at least they don’t any s@#t
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Do you know how to cook eat a Galah?
You get a pot, put water in it and bring the water to the boil. When the waters boiling you throw a galah and a stone into the pot. When the stone is soft you eat that.
The towing team is on the move. They just made it out of the bay and are getting ready to find out how bad the ice is.
Slipped their GPS into a french kayak ?
I suspect that “towing team” is not a typo.
In any event, their westward detour and the recent time ashore have added days to their travel.
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===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
“I suspect that “towing team” is not a typo.”
Nor should it be, as you surely know….from their blog; “So the danger is that we are blown away form [sic] the shore out to the ice that lurks off shore. This is absolutely not an option as the boat would be destroyed and we would be in serious danger. The only available option is to do as we have been doing and to travel when we can. You cannot imagine how frustrating this is, we make light of it but it eats at you every minute you are not moving forward. That is why we DRAGGED the boat along the shore for nearly 100k….” [Caps Mine for emphasis]
Don’t get me wrong, I have followed their adventure with keen interest. Having spent most of my 60+ years at sea, I understand the necessity of improvisation. Particularly in matters of safety. However, it isn’t factual to falsely label this solely as a ‘rowing’ event as billed by those motivated with the desire to demonstrate the ability of rowing the NW Passage in an effort to promote supposed man-caused climate change.
That said, maybe I’m wrong; Ironically, their motto is – “PULLING Together Against Climate Change.” [Caps Mine for emphasis] I imagine “pulling” can be defined as both towing just as well as rowing.
And is the case with all of those that go out to sea or merely drag their craft along the shore, I wish them a safe passage by whatever means they find suitable….regardless of their motivation.
A quick glimpse into the future of the tow team:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-EteU5pKYc
Keith,
There is good reason why Steve is so cynical about this “adventure”. Reggie is no longer with us, but do a search for him, maybe you’ll understand more.
Oh, I’m keenly aware of the “man from Brawndo” — and I think there is little chance of these fellows finishing their run successfully. But I am tracking them, and note now that because of the amount of veering from course they’ve been doing, they have more distance to go (at the same veer ratio) than when they started. They planned to go about 1km toward the goal for every 1.62km traveled. In practice, it’s now up to 2.2km to go 1km forward, doubling the “extra” distance.
As a result, they’re a full month behind — though less than a week ago they were only a week or so behind. That was bad enough with the likely early ice this year — and they started four days late on top of that.
While I tinker with the sheet from time to time — I’ve now got the points of a digitized course laid in — the upshot is that they’re not going to make it, and that’s been true from nearly the beginning.
They seem to know this — their office is aware of my calculations (they contacted me), as well as simply looking at their track (as Steven here does). They’re now grimly determined to work hard before giving up, but see the “giving up” part in their near future, I expect.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
Hi Keith, Do you have a projected last resort port for the of end of voyage?
I don’t. I do expect them to push on for several more days. And I would imagine that their next port would have a replacement anchor waiting — I know that they have at least one staffer monitoring the trip, and if there isn’t a new anchor there or on its way, someone needs their tail kicked.
Perhaps that port will be a stopping place instead. But no guesses; they’ve got lots of shore to hug for a while.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle