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Log of the Caledonia - From Quebec to Newfoundland

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From Quebec to Newfoundland - Sailing on the Caledonia

The weather is fine: sunny and hazy. A perfect afternoon on the Saint Lawrence.

At precisely eleven hundred hours the call echoes across the deck of "Caledonia", a barkentine tall ship two-hundred-forty-five feet long.

"Prepare to cast off."

Motor boats scurry across water white-veined by a current so strong Quebec's first inhabitants named this the River that Walks. Heeling dinghies skim the water, a few sloops tack lazily. [MORE]