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Linda is the captain of the Hannah Boden, the Andrea Gail’s sister boat, which is also owned by Bob Brown. Linda is a Colby College graduate, one of the few female captains in the fishing industry, and, according to Junger, one of the best captains overall on the East Coast.
Linda Greenlaw Quotes in The Perfect Storm
The The Perfect Storm quotes below are all either spoken by Linda Greenlaw or refer to Linda Greenlaw. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Flemish Cap Quotes
Around nightfall a Canadian weather map creaks out of the satellite fax. There’s a hurricane off Bermuda, a cold front coming down off the Canadian Shield and a storm brewing over the Great Lakes. They're all heading for the Grand Banks. A few minutes after the fax, Linda Greenlaw calls.
Billy, you seen the chart? she asks.
Yeah I saw it, he says.
What do you think?
Looks like it's gonna be wicked.
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The Barrel of the Gun Quotes
After talking to Barrie, Billy picks up the microphone on his single sideband and issues one last message to the fleet: She's comin' on boys, and she's comin' on strong. The position he’d given Linda Greenlaw on the Hannah Boden— 44 north, 56.4 west—is a departure from his original heading. It appears to be more the heading of a man bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, or maybe even Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, than Gloucester, Massachusetts. […] Whatever the reason, Billy changes course sometime before 6 PM and neglects to tell the rest of the fleet.
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The Dreams of the Dead Quotes
And then, on the afternoon of November 5th, an EPIRB washes up on Sable Island. […] Like the bottled note thrown overboard from the schooner Falcon a century ago, the odds of something as small as an EPIRB winding up in human hands are absurdly small. And the odds of Billy Tyne disarming his EPIRB—there's no reason to, it wouldn’t even save batteries—are even smaller. Bob Brown, Linda Greenlaw, Charlie Reed, no one who knows Billy can explain it.
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Linda Greenlaw Character Timeline in The Perfect Storm
The timeline below shows where the character Linda Greenlaw appears in The Perfect Storm. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Gloucester, Mass., 1991
...boat in Gloucester’s harbor is the Hannah Boden, which is captained by a woman named Linda Greenlaw . Linda’s one of the only female captains out there and has a reputation as...
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The Flemish Cap
...Tyne hasn’t even caught enough fish to cover his expenses for this trip. Billy tells Linda Greenlaw that he’s going to need more fuel. Billy has a reputation for testing limits this...
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...and another storm from the Great Lakes—all on course to converge on the Grand Banks. Linda Greenlaw calls Billy to ask him what he thinks. Billy says it looks like it’s going...
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The Barrel of the Gun
...have often been able to gauge a storm’s strength by the sound the wind makes; Linda Greenlaw said that she once heard hundred-mile-per-hour winds producing “a deep tonal vibration like a church...
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...changed course without notifying the rest of the fleet. But nobody is concerned except for Linda Greenlaw , who thinks that Billy’s last transmission sounded scared.
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Into the Abyss
...reach his boats all day. That night, he finally gets through to the Hannah Boden; Linda Greenlaw hasn’t heard from Billy in a couple of days and is worried. Bob reports the...
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