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Day 14 – Wind Shifts and Kites
First of all, apparently yesterday’s post was truncated right before I got to the utterly useless response I got from Furuno and my ensuing rant at their customer service. My apologies, I will repost the restor perhaps and edited with the cool clarity of time version which does not vent Read On..
Also posted in passages
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So other than that how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
Until some time this afternoon I was fairly convinced that we had utterly destroyed the spinnaker this past weekend. While there is little evidence to the contrary as far as my sail maker is concerned, we have set the cruising spinnaker on this boat and on our last boat several Read On..
Also posted in Block Island, broken things
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Spritting Mad
Many thanks and Kudos to Vickie in HR Parts once again, she finally secured Evenstar’s new bow sprit. This is a lovely piece of stainless steel that we spotted on the deck of Freight Train VII, a sister ship we ran into at Block Island last year.Running the spinnaker has Read On..
Also posted in hard to find parts, sprit
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