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 had to return wrong size prop & shaft |
 Dilithium Crystal |
 south shore |
 HARVEY GAMAGE |
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 PICTON CASTLE |
 nearing PICTON CASTLE |
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 LIBERTY CLIPPER |
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 HARVEY GAMAGE |
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 Ten Pount light |
 Cruiseport Gloucester |
 Sea Grille - Sat. Dinner , Sun. Breakfast & Seminars |
 AMERICA'S CUP HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY |
 Past Commodore Anderson |
 Halsey |
 John Rousmaniere |
 Longley was OZ-SOME ! |
 Fishers Island foxes |
 why we need to always do the bottom |
 Linda was okay with my sleeping next to a virgin that night |
 BEAR AWAY 30C reef point layout |
 taping boat for 4 mil plastic "skirt enclosure" pre-blasting |
 skirt in place and clamped to felt 'floor' |
 aft 'dust collector' |
 forward 'dust collector' |
 inside of skirt became pale blue very quickly |
 loading the soda powder |
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 inside is a pale blue haze |
 thick bottom paint, with blue surface coat still to be blasted |
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 skirt dropped |
 rolling up skirt in felt to haul off and dispose |
 pressure washing 'pale blue' blasting residue off everything that was inside the 'skirt' |
 hull / keel joint |
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 strbrd side |
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 addded to pressure wash for second wash down |
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 scrubbed/washed entire topsides & bottom |
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 'final rinse' power wash |
 very polite, very hard working, very good job |
 'Christmas present' snowfall |
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 bye, see ya in the spring ! |
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 DON'T SNEEZE . . . til the mid & fwd stands are in place ! |
 stern stands in place & trailer pulling out |
 dead calm day helps |
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 shore to door service ! |
 BETA butt, top of SELVA saildrive |
 special & practical 'Yacht White' BETA 28 - no better engine colour |
 partners |
 mast step |
 night-night on Narr Bay, and rental car to CT |
 motoring, DFF on Fishers |
 soon to pass the old religious orders resort, Thames River not far |
 ready to get underway |
 the 'historic' gull tracks |
 NBYC sea wall |
 end slip, Niantic Bay YC |
 last rays over the Sound |
 Niantic Bay next left, 2nd evening |
 nearing Duck Island, 1st evening |
 underway behind Rob, heading past Seawanhaka Corintian YC |
 the path toward home |
 very helpful yard |
 first glimpse in 4 years - yard docked her night before |
 breakfast then get going - Art's the chef |
 boat full of boat junk for the boat |
 Rob drove us - viola, no car problems ! |
 our ride from CT River to Oyster Bay |
 Arthur |
 Arthur, Linda G., & Teresa heading for lobstah dinnah in RNSYS Marine Yard |
 port profile |
 strbd |
 foredeck |
 helm & cockpit table |
 cockpit |
 cockpit instruments |
 strbd dbl qtr berth |
 head |
 salon |
 galley from salon |
 impromptu early June Social at the Squadron |
 sailing friends of over 35 years - Ed & Arthur |
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 John Domenech |
 East River - NYC, NY |