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First Sailboat Crosses the Northwest Passage
November 9, 2012 | Alaska Dispatch

An article in the Alaska Dispatch reports on the first crew to sail from Greenland to Alaska through the Northwest Passage in a 31-foot sailboat with an unreinforced fiberglass hull.


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