Flying Cloud

Today, P learned about the Flying Cloud (which I mistakenly thought was the name of our model ship, which is in actuality a model of the Gorch Fock; my parents' model was the Flying Cloud). P remembered several hours later that the Flying Cloud sailed from New York to San Francicso around South America (Cape Horn) in a record 89 days. He used a world map to trace the pathway from New York to San Francisco. He then, looking at the map, suggested that another path might have been north around Canada through the Queen Elizabeth islands; Kristin suggested to him that it would be very cold with ice that way.