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	<title>Voyage of the Good Ship Westward</title>
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	<description>An 86' classic motoryacht travels around the Pacific</description>
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		<title>“Westward in the 21st Century” – Premiere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A documentary on the yacht Westward’s remarkable history has been in the works for the past few years; now complete, the film provides a wonderful record of Westward’s extraordinary provenance, history &#38; accomplishments over the 85 years since her launching in 1924. The “Premier” of “Westward in the 21st Century” has been set for March [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=425</link>
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		<title>Westward Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We last reported on the occasion of Westward’s August 30th return to Lake Union, an event marking the end of our 19 month/21,500 mile circumnavigation of the Pacific. (see: www.classicyacht.org/westward) . September saw Westward dry-docked, scrubbed &#38; painted&#8212;-all prerequisites to full &#38; proper completion of her Pacific odyssey.  She is now returned to her element and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=377</link>
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		<title>Safely Home!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 1st:  A “rough &#38; boisterous” non-stop, four-day passage bucking southerlies the full length of the Inside Passage, brought Westward from Ketchikan to Seattle&#8212;&#8211;and alongside the Historic Vessel Pier at Lake Union at 1400 hrs sharp 30th August 2008. 19 months &#38; 21,500 miles since our departure in February, 2007. The highlight of our warm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=403</link>
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		<title>Arrival Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Latest ETA for Westward to return from her Pacific Circumnavigation is 1000 hours to the Ballard Locks on Saturday August 30th.]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=374</link>
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		<title>Update from Ketchikan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings:  This is an unexpected report from Ketchikan.  Our hope was to now be steaming southward towards Seattle along the offshore waters of Southeast Alaska &#38; British Colombia; alas, we have been forced inland, to the more sheltered waters of the Inside Passage, by a series of challenging &#38; un-summer-like southerly storms offshore. The cruising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=360</link>
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		<title>Homecoming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soon after our Catalyst reunion, we will take our departure from Alaska at Dixon Entrance, sailing direct to Seattle on a 700 mile outside passage down the West Coast of Vancouver Island &#38; Straits of Juan de Fuca.   We&#8217;ve set our arrival in Seattle for  2 p.m. on Saturday, August 30th&#8212;&#8212;in Lake Union, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=359</link>
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		<title>Westward at Kodiak, Alaska</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The two weeks since Teresa &#38; the Nyborgs arrived onboard have brought Westward 750 miles northeast, along the eastern shore of the Alaska Peninsula, to the town of Kodiak on Kodiak Island. Our travel along this ultra-rugged coast, where gray skies gradually gave way to blue, included stops in the Shumagain Islands, at Kupreanof Harbor, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=389</link>
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		<title>Sweeper Cove, Adak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once the Adak Naval Air Station, steeped in cold-war mystery, Sweeper Cove has infrastructure for the population of 10,000 that once manned this base. But it is now home to little more that 100 permanent residents (plus assorted transients&#8212;-fishing, hunting &#38; contract). Needless to say, in this harsh environment, the community is getting a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=417</link>
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		<title>The Bay of Islands &#8211; Adak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The remarkable Bay of Islands is sheltered from the ravages of the North Pacific &#38; Bering Sea by a group of protective islands&#8212;-passage thought which required transit of channels named “Hell’s Gate” &#38; “The Race”.  Slack water made these transits speedy &#38; uneventful and brought us four-square with nature thriving in this lonely shelter at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=348</link>
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		<title>Traveling the Ring of Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post continues. . .]]></description>
		<link>http://classicyacht.org/westward/?p=341</link>
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