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Dent, Yuculta, Green; names of rapids that you need to pay attention to.This is where you need to know about current tables as well as tide tables.The whirlpools; the sinkers in two of these rapids can get up to thirty feet across and the rapids can run 8 knots.We run at 8 knots, so you know that...

If you feel confused by the chronological order of the latest episodes of the Adventures of the Audrey Eleanor, you should be. Quite frankly I left the “rat” episodes until last because I struggle with the nightmare of them still. This was not the summer that we envisioned; it was a fight from...

Hurricane force winds mean it’s just another day on the west coast.We had weathered two such storms in Potts Lagoon, located towards the north end of Vancouver Island.These are the winds that flattened Stanley Park in Vancouver B.C., Canada. Four days of sitting in the rain is wearing on us.The...

We are docked in Prince Rupert, B.C. It feels great to be back in Canadian waters. Audrey has been de-registered in record time thanks to Sheila (she is amazing) and we are once again Canadian registered with our home Port being Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. We were never boarded by the U.S. homeland...

It’s time for a little magic. The end of what we thought wasn’t a bad summer is drawing to a close. The locals in Pender Harbour and Madeira Park complain about climate change and in their minds, lack of a summer at all. I admit that it wasn’t as hot as I would have liked it, but the days were...

Audrey is moored in Deep Bay, B.C. on the mid-section of Vancouver Island. We had crossed the sandbar in front of Comox early the following day. This is a notoriously rough area because it is shallow and the waves stack. The range markers lead you directly from Georgia Straight towards Vancouver Island....

This is the end my friend. After hurricane lashings, cold wet nights,(the toothpaste was frozen some mornings) and dock disputes, spring has finally beaten up old man winter. The Furies still try to push their way around the docks and stir up shorelines but are losing much of their ability...

In the previous episodes the Audrey Eleanor had come under attack by an ex-navy cutter/gunboat.The crew now need to determine if Audrey has met the end of her days.The other consideration is whether the US boat that hit her has insurance to cover the damage that he has done. Sunday roars in...

Where to start?The rats have run rampant on board the Audrey Eleanor for two months we estimate.We call our neighbours who own The Knotty Gal, we want them to be aware that there are rats on the docks.As we walk the dock rat signs are everywhere.Hopefully few have managed to gain access to the interiors...

Welcome to Tremontaine, the prequel to Ellen Kushner’s beloved Riverside series that began with Swordspoint! A Duchess whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; her husband’s dangerous affair with a handsome scholar; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius...

Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...

Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous...

DEA agent Pete Olivera has lived some hard times, so when a local cop is forced to shoot a teenage boy in the Indiana city Pete’s temporarily assigned to, he’s uniquely qualified to understand what Officer Joseph West is going through. Joseph’s actions were justified and saved lives—his own...

This anthology collects the first three months of Mad Scientist Journal in one book. In addition to new exclusive fiction by Emily C. Skaftun and flash fiction classified ads, this book includes tales by Jeffery Scott Sims, Adam Israel, Ash Krafton, M. Bennardo, Gary Cuba, Christos Callow, Jr., Darren...