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There it is perched precariously on top on a sea-can container on top of the deck.

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8 days at sea, nice salt water wash no doubt

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From Ottawa by truck to the Montreal docks, then by ship up to frobisher Bay (Iqaluit) on Baffin Isl...

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Here's the crane slinging her off the container and down to its new Arctic home.

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The tide is 35 feet in 12 hours and has a record of 42 feet. The flat bottom ships just roll, anchor...

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The tidal flats are solid, smooth rock with only a little sand on top, if any.

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Once in a blue moon, when there is a need, they just bulldoze a temporary causeway out to the ships ...