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    Living vicariously thru your blog... Skip, It's...

    Living vicariously thru your blog...
    Skip, It's the end of an era for this family, Mom passed on the 27th about when you were looking at all those beautiful stars. I did get down there in time....
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    Skip....Your 8th grade "beat the...

    Skip....Your 8th grade "beat the system"....writing of final draft first, then rough draft, then outline.... reminds me of my attempts to fool my piano and vocal teachers into thinking I was sight...
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    Howard... more trivia for you...... It was...

    Howard... more trivia for you......
    It was somewhere in the early 60's that ANGELITA (then owned by Ed Tobin) was still in Newport Harbor... I was crew on Walt Podelack's COQUILLE on a Saturday, and...
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    Soooo appropriate!!!! Congrats Skip.

    Soooo appropriate!!!! Congrats Skip.
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    Skip, Do you recognize the schooner in the...

    Skip, Do you recognize the schooner in the background of the photo of the WILLIAM B ?oiiiiiiiiiiiAZ)___########@ (This last bit was typed by my cat FLOW as she came to sit on my warm laptop keyboard...
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    Very near me in Pine Mountain Lake ....an Eagle...

    Very near me in Pine Mountain Lake ....an Eagle was seen and captured on camera yesterday by a resident. Amazing regal presence whenever seen.

    Here are six photos: ...
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    Skip, We used a taffrail log very similar on our...

    Skip, We used a taffrail log very similar on our passages in CHAUTAUQUA, the same log my father relied on while cruising RENEGADEin the 50's. The best part of it was how well it trained human senses...
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    Love your ingenuity Skip. Same place a year...

    Love your ingenuity Skip. Same place a year later. We gave a bit of attitude adjustment to some local marauding teenagers who hand paddled out in the dark to our little CHAUTAUQUA. We surprised them...
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    Back in the 1970's when I was selling Hobie 16's...

    Back in the 1970's when I was selling Hobie 16's in Big Bear Lake, the first mandatory sailing lesson, and one that came with the purchase price of the boat, was to pitchpole it and then right it...
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    Skip, love these interesting tidbits of info, and...

    Skip, love these interesting tidbits of info, and agree that Brandy might bring out the optimum results in almost any contest if administered at the right intervals. I believe that my famiy's voyages...
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    i just returned from the Port Townsend Wooden...

    i just returned from the Port Townsend Wooden boat festival.. that kind of smile was all over my face while there. Hard not to look at all those beautiful wooden vessels without a big smile... better...
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    Avidly reading your descriptions of fireworks,...

    Avidly reading your descriptions of fireworks, Skip. Here in the Motherlode private fireworks are illegal, and the permitted shows have been requested to lower the display heights to limit the...
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    S'been a long time since I have enjoyed so much...

    S'been a long time since I have enjoyed so much rhyme, meter and whimsey in one place...
    Does this have a melody? It cries out to be sung by many voices,
    in harmony,
    tuned by TraderJoes' best....
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    586 the master prankster embeds truth enough...

    586

    the master prankster embeds truth enough to be a beloved raconteur...
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    I agree with Howard, on the IQ, but sometimes it...

    I agree with Howard, on the IQ, but sometimes it was overcome by peer pressure to do it. The offset of course is the Darwin Principle. Some of us are lucky to be around to talk about it, eh?
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    We lived on the Balboa side of the Jetty. The...

    We lived on the Balboa side of the Jetty. The noise of the waves pounding into the sand was punctuated by the ambulance sounds as surfers were carried away to mend. I can remember how stupid it was...
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    Thanks for the nice remembry of Dad and his...

    Thanks for the nice remembry of Dad and his yachts Skip. My earliest childhood rush was hanging by my knees off RENEGADE's bowsprit and dragging fingers in the sea foam.
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    Sounds like Australia's lessons have been...

    Sounds like Australia's lessons have been forgotten.
    Up here in the aftermath of the Rim Fire, species are a bit off balance... But sorting themselves out slowly. Predators have had to move to find...
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    My Dad, Hale Field, repeated similar experiences...

    My Dad, Hale Field, repeated similar experiences of being shot at sailing PICs with Peggy Slater in the Sf Bay near the prison during early years at Stanford... Would have been in the early 40s...
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