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Sailing the Northwest Passage by catamaran

Broadcast Date: Nov. 2, 1988

"I think it's important to emphasize that you and Mike Beedell did something that has never been done before," says panellist Pierre Berton in this 1988 Front Page Challenge clip. He's talking to Canada's Jeffrey MacInnis, one of two men who navigated the Northwest Passage on a catamaran – the first craft to cross "by wind power alone." The journey was quite gruelling. But when asked why he persevered, MacInnis responds with a smile: "Once you dream it, you have to do it."

Sailing the Northwest Passage by catamaran

• MacInnis and Beedell began their journey among ice floes in the summer of 1986.
• It took them a total of 100 days, over the course of three summers, to complete. They spent the winters in between in Southern Ontario.
• They achieved their goal in August 1988.
• This clip mentions that MacInnis's father had previously been a guest on Front Page Challenge. Jeffrey's father, Dr. Joseph MacInnis, is a renowned physician/scientist, ocean explorer and author. He is well known for his underwater investigations of the Titanic wreckage.

Sailing the Northwest Passage by catamaran

Medium: Television

Program: Front Page Challenge

Broadcast Date: Nov. 2, 1988

Guest(s): Jeffrey MacInnis

Host: Fred Davis
Panellist: Pierre Berton, Allan Fotheringham, Betty Kennedy, Knowlton Nash

Duration: 11:01

Writer: Warner Troyer c/o Writers Guild of Canada, 416-979-7907 Ex. 5236.

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Aug. 12, 2009

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