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Daffy Taffy Amy Sedaris’s wellness mogul character Bethany Welles gifts the captain and crew her special saltwater taffy … which turns out to have psilocybin in it, causing the first mate to trip balls just as the Odyssey finds itself in the eye of a hurricane.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
The captain and first mate provide storytelling about the grand waterfront cottages, the bay’s history of lumber and fur trading, and general lake statistics (170 feet at its deepest point; 69 degrees and holding, at least in summer).
—Staff Author Published, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
The Arlington started to take on water and the ship's first mate, Junis Macksey, ordered a course to hug the Canadian north shore, which would have provided some cover from wind and waves.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
The ship’s first mate ordered the Arlington onto a course to hug the Canadian North Shore, which would have provided some cover from wind and waves, but Burke countermanded and ordered his ship back onto a course across the open lake, the discoverers said.
—Apress, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
The captain and first mate provide storytelling about the grand waterfront cottages, the bay’s history of lumber and fur trading, and general lake statistics (170 feet at its deepest point; 69 degrees and holding, at least in summer).
—Staff Author Published, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
The Arlington started to take on water and the ship's first mate, Junis Macksey, ordered a course to hug the Canadian north shore, which would have provided some cover from wind and waves.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
The ship’s first mate ordered the Arlington onto a course to hug the Canadian North Shore, which would have provided some cover from wind and waves, but Burke countermanded and ordered his ship back onto a course across the open lake, the discoverers said.
—Apress, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
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“First mate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20mate. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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