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Leg One, Day One: Thursday, September 12th, 2013


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Entry Three, Part 8 of 8: 1619 Hours: We concluded the presentations for this Voyage of Discovery with a practical demonstration of the principles the Mechanical Advantage team had studied. By hooking Mathijs to one of the tackles in the Half Moon's rig, they showed how the pulleys cut the force needed to lift Mathijs's by nearly two-thirds!

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