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Not only will it make dropping the sail into the boom bag far easier it certainly reduces any flogging and vastly lengthens the life of the sail. While…"
Orvil Newton's Blog – June 2009 Archive (1)
Spring
June 5th 2009, Shilshole Bay:
The weather has been pretty nice the past week or so; almost like Hawaii in the dead of winter. But today we appear to be back to normal – cloudy, cool and wet. A good thing, I judge, as most of the locals have been complaining about the heat (Mid-80’s maximum) and attributing it to Global Warming, or as I prefer to call it – “Spring”.
Laura has been working far too many hours and attracting the wrong kind of attention from upper management – the kind of… Continue
The weather has been pretty nice the past week or so; almost like Hawaii in the dead of winter. But today we appear to be back to normal – cloudy, cool and wet. A good thing, I judge, as most of the locals have been complaining about the heat (Mid-80’s maximum) and attributing it to Global Warming, or as I prefer to call it – “Spring”.
Laura has been working far too many hours and attracting the wrong kind of attention from upper management – the kind of… Continue
Added by Orvil Newton on June 12, 2009 at 12:41am — No Comments
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