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...estimated $150 million. Each boat carries a skeleton crew that is responsible for upkeep and for starting the engines once a day to prevent ice buildups on the propeller and the hull. "We're just baby sitting a boat," says Leo Hallinan, 40, a deckhand aboard the Ann Blessey. "If the TV ever went out, they'd have to carry us off in ambulances and straitjackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going with the Floe | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...sign that sums up " their plight: WELCOME - BOREDOM CITY - POP. 16. Says Doug ("Pee-wee") Flannery, 24, a deckhand on the White Knight: "You just watch the second hand go around." To keep busy, the crew of the Hawkeye has adopted four mallard hens; the men aboard the Ann Blessey cast for carp using hot dogs and cheddar cheese. One deckhand reportedly persuaded the pilot of the White Knight to steer a ragged course around the ice floes in pursuit of real or imagined silver foxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going with the Floe | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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