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Crash Course

Just two weeks into retirement, my friends Keith and Cindy were living their dream aboard a sturdy trawler. As they worked their way north for the summer, their confidence in handling the boat increased with each night’s stop at a marina. Unfortunately, that all changed as they made their first stop at a marina with swift currents running through it.

On sheer luck, they arrived in the evening at slack current. The marina

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