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PostSubject: USS Jeannette (1878)   USS Jeannette (1878) EmptySat Aug 02, 2014 4:18 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Jeannette_%281878%29

Heard about this expedition on the radio... hard to imagine.
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PostSubject: Re: USS Jeannette (1878)   USS Jeannette (1878) EmptySat Aug 02, 2014 4:37 pm
What a way to go.

I love boats and everything, but I don't think I am adventurous enough to try to sail to the North Pole area.
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PostSubject: Re: USS Jeannette (1878)   USS Jeannette (1878) EmptySat Aug 02, 2014 4:45 pm
I think the radio program said it was the last attempt by sail. With good reason... lol.
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PostSubject: Re: USS Jeannette (1878)   USS Jeannette (1878) EmptySat Aug 02, 2014 5:45 pm
They should have just called for a chopper on their satellite phone...
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PostSubject: Re: USS Jeannette (1878)   USS Jeannette (1878) EmptySat Aug 02, 2014 7:21 pm
Eric wrote:
What a way to go.

I love boats and everything, but I don't think I am adventurous enough to try to sail to the North Pole area.

Reminds me of the Ernest Shackleton expeditions to Antarctica. Anyone else ever read those books?

The USS Jeannette had a steam engine, but it does seem a little nuts to me. We just had a sailboat get stuck in the ice floes in the Chukchi Sea up near Barrow. CG had to fly up from Anchorage, but he was already too far gone so they had to enlist a nearby icebreaker that was on a research trip.

http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2014/07/stuck-in-the-arctic-ice/

Part of this article is wrong, but the last paragraph might draw your interest:

http://www.adn.com/article/20140713/mariner-trying-sail-northwest-passage-rescued-after-sailboat-gets-stuck-sea-ice
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PostSubject: Re: USS Jeannette (1878)   USS Jeannette (1878) EmptySat Aug 02, 2014 8:05 pm
A rowboat... lol. No fricken way.
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PostSubject: Re: USS Jeannette (1878)   USS Jeannette (1878) EmptySat Aug 02, 2014 8:46 pm
I know... insane, right?
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