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From the Deck: DISCOVERY

I stepped into a shop at The Boothbay Harbor Shipyard and came short up against what I took at first for a very large vessel in frame. She was heavily built of double-sawed 6″x6″ frames set close together. The two halves of each frame were held together with locust treenails, wooden pegs, a tip-off that

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First Lesson

My first “student” of the week aboard our Friendship sloop EASTWARD was George, a pleasant, enthusiastic young man who had been sailing on other people’s boats and was eager to learn. He paid attention to the direction of the wind and the luff of the mainsail and soon got the feel of the wheel. Sam

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