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Tracking this has been fun! I'm looking forward to seeing my GT.........just hoping this -25 Minnesota weather doesn't push riding season into June! Boat #2 is halfway across the Atlantic as well!
Pretty cool.... Looks like the Boat carring those first 38 GT continentals is in dock in my neighborhood.... should take a quick ride over and have a peek. http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/oldmmsi:371842000/olddate:2014-01-31%2001:03:00/zoom:9https://www.facebook.com/RoyalEnfieldUSA?sk=app_162119700524392
Two winters ago, the Coast Guard icebreaker assigned to our area went to the Great Lakes for the winter. We had crap cell-phone WIFI on the boat, and so we followed their progress on the Marine Traffic website, up and around and through the Canadian Maritimes and up the Saint Laurence river. It was interesting, but rather like watching the worlds most boring video game. I'm sure anyone who is waiting on their new Conti watches the slow progress with more enthusiasm!(If anyone is curious, you can follow all the misdeeds of the boat I work on:http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/367519240/vessel:CAPT_E_FRANK_THOMPSOI'm truly ashamed by the boat's appearance; it's got to be one of the top ten ugliest boats afloat - the biggest benefit to working on it is that I don't have to look at it.)
Isn't this the area where Melville got inspiration for his novels?The Pequod, that was a true vessel.
http://www.mysticseaport.org/event/moby-dick-marathon/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bedford_Whaling_Museumhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1utb7NgQDI
Still find Moby Dick best book as introduction on whales ever. Melville is a great author.
Royalista - look up the true story of the whaleship "Essex", which inspired Melville's Moby Dick. A good resource is Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex : excitement, adventure, foolishness, bravery, cannibalism... what more could you ask for?!?