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Beware the Witches and Dimwits

Since this issue arrives during Halloween season, I can share a scary tale that brought me face-to-face not just with witches and goblins, but also with the very sea gods themselves.

It all began with a phone call, from which I emerged horrified. Appalled to the point of being speechless. I was, in the British vernacular, gobsmacked.

My friend Jon had acquired a new-to-him trawler yacht, and I had asked him when he planned to

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