[PCW] Northwest Passage - was mono vs. cat

[Georgs Kolesnikovs]

>Well...yes Mac, if you get your weather forecasts from U.S. Coast Guard
>broadcasts.  According to them the trip has already been made by hundreds of
>boats over the past few years, possibly thousands, though no one is tracking
>it.

That simply isn't true for recreational vessels, ie, yachts. Maybe 
only 30 have made the transit, almopst all of them sailboats.

I don't even think "hundreds" is true for commercial vessels. 
Actually, I'm sure it is not.

--Georgs