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A CLOSE CONNECTION

I was reading “The River That Flows Both Ways” (October) by Pim Van Hemmen and enjoying that nice story about a white-hulled TransWorld Fantail Trawler with single Lehman diesel, when it suddenly hit me: That’s my old boat!

Launched as Lyric in 1989, she was the first “production” model from this builder.

I spent a

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