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Have your boat text you when it’s in trouble Issue 83: March/April 2012 Recreational boats can lead a lonely life. On the weekends, it’s party time with lots of guests and action. During the weekdays, they just hang around the docks gently tugging on their lines. That doesn’t mean they can’t get themselves into big...
Compassion for the lost transcends species Issue 82 : Jan/Feb 2012 Once, for two nights and a day, in the middle of the Sargasso Sea, I made an unlikely friendship with a castaway bird. He was no bigger than my fist. Gray, mostly. Some black. With his ruffled feathers and seemingly low in energy, he...
It’s invisible, insidious, and destructive Issue 83: March/April 2012 Everyone today knows we shouldn’t go out in the sun without wearing adequate protection, but it wasn’t always so. Noel Coward wrote a song, “Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the Midday Sun,” about the English habit of ignoring the customs of native inhabitants of...
Mastering the machine assures entry to the club Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011 Defining moments can occur at any time. I was sewing a couple of covers for the new (larger!) winches Jerry installed this past summer, when one hit me (a defining moment, not a winch). To remember the steps involved in assembling these...
