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KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE

It was two years ago that I sold my 1977 Cape Dory 28, which I had sailed for over 10 years on the East Coast out of my home port in Galesville, Virginia. At the, but I was wrong! As each copy arrives in the mail, I find that I am interested in almost every article even more so than when I was sailing. Why? I guess it’s because the articles remind me of the happy days I spent sailing aboard . At age 94 I knew it was time to quit, but now I find that the second best thing to going for a sail is to read your magazine.

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