With the telecom work rolling in, the week is starting early. I'm going to hit the Harbor for a row, then work on the Garage reorg. That should leave the afternoon open to crank on the Telecom work.
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Normally the weekends should be reserved for weekend stuff, but today has to be an exception.
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Sunday, September 09, 2007
Saturday, September 08, 2007
A Great Wedding.
The wedding of Tina and Colin Rhodes was easily one of the best that we have attended in years. It was brutally hot, the air conditioning was broken and the windows in the reception hall were painted shut.
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People were sweating in places that they didn't know they had. But the whole group decided that they wouldn't let this disrupt the joy of Tina and Colin. They had wedded bliss welded to their countenances.
The food was great and the dancing was way more vigorous that usual, despite the enormous discomfort. They had real Dark and Stormies - with Baritt's Ginger Beer and Gosling's Black Seal Rum - the closest to perfection other than my own. I've never seen that at a Wedding before, and it was a real nice touch.
There were the MegaPeeps - Brian and Stacey Butler - in attendance as well as Lindsay Kepnes. Jaime Ferrara came as Jaime Andrews, and we met her husband, which brought that whole issue to a good resolution.
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We had a blast. Good Luck - Tina and Colin.
Another Day Off
Needless to say, the boat construction is not proceeding today with Tina's Wedding and all.
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So I took a long row from Riverhead Landing at the end of Marblehead Harbor, all the way out and around Marblehead Rock and then back through the Harbor on the Fort Sewall side.. Once I got out by the Lighthouse, I trolled for stripers and circumnavigated Marblehead Rock, which really stinks close in.
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The only one violating the no-wake zone was the Marblehead Harbormaster. I''m sure he had a good reason.
A New Entry
William Sandison Crawford III was born last night. 7 lbs. 12 oz. Will and Lauren are doing well, but Peter, the new Grandpa is questionable.
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Welcome William. Have a great run.
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Welcome William. Have a great run.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Dale and Gail Johnson
Dale and Gail came over for a dinner of grilled tuna and mussels. Naturally, Joanne did a great job at dinner and Dale was present for the entire time. Luckily, his alter ego, Buck, did not make an appearance.
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Dale is all worked up because he has to go to London for a presentation to a Venture Capital company regarding his metals recycling company. From my perspective, it is a slam dunk for him because of his talent and business sense, but he is still pensive about the outcome.
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We always have a good time with Dale and Gail, because they laugh at our jokes, and we laugh at theirs. In the end, that is all that is required.
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Dale is all worked up because he has to go to London for a presentation to a Venture Capital company regarding his metals recycling company. From my perspective, it is a slam dunk for him because of his talent and business sense, but he is still pensive about the outcome.
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We always have a good time with Dale and Gail, because they laugh at our jokes, and we laugh at theirs. In the end, that is all that is required.
Wedding Hype
Tina James and Colin Rhodes are getting married tomorrow. I know that the Peeps expect me to attend all of their weddings, but I can only do so much.
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Murph last week and Tina this week were special Peeps though, who did a lot of hanging around Beverly Ave. while they were growing up. Just because I am attending these weddings doesn't make me official wedding invitation bait. I would go to their weddings even if they were not POTW alumni.
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I don't know the Rhodes family, but Tina's family is really great, and I'm looking forward to the Saturday nuptials. Plus Katelyn is a bridesmaid, and I have some cool new dance moves to try out on her at the reception.
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Plus the huge rumor is that Lindsay Kepnes is in town for the event. How great is that!!!
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Murph last week and Tina this week were special Peeps though, who did a lot of hanging around Beverly Ave. while they were growing up. Just because I am attending these weddings doesn't make me official wedding invitation bait. I would go to their weddings even if they were not POTW alumni.
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I don't know the Rhodes family, but Tina's family is really great, and I'm looking forward to the Saturday nuptials. Plus Katelyn is a bridesmaid, and I have some cool new dance moves to try out on her at the reception.
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Plus the huge rumor is that Lindsay Kepnes is in town for the event. How great is that!!!
From Tuna Lips
This one was too good to be hidden in the comments....
t was October 1, 1949. That Chink Mao was declaring the world was red, Frankie Laine released the album "Mule Train", which made me snuffle for ole Sal, and Dick Button won the men's figure skating championships. He sure could glide, that Dick. I was making my way to do some logging as I was a lumberjack, hoboing on Sardis & Delta Railroad near Sardis, Mississippi. What once was an honorable craft, hoboing around for work, was becoming a boiling cauldron of theivin', gamblin', and whorin', with the not infrequent enough encounter with buggery preverts. It was fall, and there was plenty of wood to chop and send down the river, and I was plenty hungry, having only eaten a red capped woodpecker and some cow corn in the past week. My body smelled, my teeth hurt, and my droppings were as hard as a cow's turd in winter. It was a tryin' time for this pilgrim, leading this life that was not at one with nature, as I had a great fondness for things of the woods, but was chopping down trees, which was where my friends, the birds of the sky, resided, and I had nothing to eat. Momma had learnt us not to steal, but poppa would steal a hot stove if it was available, and he was no worse, though now paralyzed due to being hit on the head with a sledge hammer by an angry Chinese feller in pajamas who was working the railroad, and did not like poppa stealing his poppy paste that made the town folk drool. No good rice eatin heathen! It was at this time that the local orchard was pulling in the apples, and the town folk was pressing cider and curing hams, and boy o boy did I like cider and ham. So, I took the road into town, and decided to look around for an entreprenuer's opportunity, the kind of thing that made this fine country great, and the kind of thing that would stop me from molesting mother nature and get me some cider and ham. As I ambled into town, tape worm dangling, in need of a bath and a mule, it dawned on me. I was to . . . .
t was October 1, 1949. That Chink Mao was declaring the world was red, Frankie Laine released the album "Mule Train", which made me snuffle for ole Sal, and Dick Button won the men's figure skating championships. He sure could glide, that Dick. I was making my way to do some logging as I was a lumberjack, hoboing on Sardis & Delta Railroad near Sardis, Mississippi. What once was an honorable craft, hoboing around for work, was becoming a boiling cauldron of theivin', gamblin', and whorin', with the not infrequent enough encounter with buggery preverts. It was fall, and there was plenty of wood to chop and send down the river, and I was plenty hungry, having only eaten a red capped woodpecker and some cow corn in the past week. My body smelled, my teeth hurt, and my droppings were as hard as a cow's turd in winter. It was a tryin' time for this pilgrim, leading this life that was not at one with nature, as I had a great fondness for things of the woods, but was chopping down trees, which was where my friends, the birds of the sky, resided, and I had nothing to eat. Momma had learnt us not to steal, but poppa would steal a hot stove if it was available, and he was no worse, though now paralyzed due to being hit on the head with a sledge hammer by an angry Chinese feller in pajamas who was working the railroad, and did not like poppa stealing his poppy paste that made the town folk drool. No good rice eatin heathen! It was at this time that the local orchard was pulling in the apples, and the town folk was pressing cider and curing hams, and boy o boy did I like cider and ham. So, I took the road into town, and decided to look around for an entreprenuer's opportunity, the kind of thing that made this fine country great, and the kind of thing that would stop me from molesting mother nature and get me some cider and ham. As I ambled into town, tape worm dangling, in need of a bath and a mule, it dawned on me. I was to . . . .
Synchronicity
Depending upon how the noon time customer call goes, I might be down in NY early next week, and we have a bunch of other stuff hitting next week.
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Why do diverse things seem to come to a head at the same time? Does it happen to you? It seems too coincidental that stuff that you have been pursuing with different people and different activities would culminate at the same focal point.
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I suppose there is a metaphysical explanation, and we'll have to wait until we are dead when we look and say "A Ha! That is how that was connected!" Either that, or we fade into oblivion, which doesn't seem logical either.
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Why do diverse things seem to come to a head at the same time? Does it happen to you? It seems too coincidental that stuff that you have been pursuing with different people and different activities would culminate at the same focal point.
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I suppose there is a metaphysical explanation, and we'll have to wait until we are dead when we look and say "A Ha! That is how that was connected!" Either that, or we fade into oblivion, which doesn't seem logical either.
POTW Week 35
The ride back from Albany was torture.
We had barbeque with the customer, and whatever I ate decided to have an immediate party in my intestines.
A lesser man would have pulled over to the side of the road and called it quits, but I gamely hit my own bathroom in Marblehead at 11:30 PM last night with no messy incidents.
Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 35th week of 2007
We had barbeque with the customer, and whatever I ate decided to have an immediate party in my intestines.
A lesser man would have pulled over to the side of the road and called it quits, but I gamely hit my own bathroom in Marblehead at 11:30 PM last night with no messy incidents.
Announcing....
Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the 35th week of 2007
- Michael Murphy
- Beth Murphy
- Lauren Rathbone
- Ryan Nestor
- Jeremy Johnson
- Keith DiMatteo
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Emotional Response
Peeps -
Enough of the congrats on the Blog anniversary!!!
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I would never have mentioned it if I thought that everyone was going to get so sappy and emotional.
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It's just a blog....
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You've got to find more substance in your lives.
Speaking of which, the POTW selections may be delayed this evening because I have to attend a business dinner in Albany, NY.... then drive all the way back to Marblehead. Not to panic though, because this weeks nominations are not too difficult. As aways, I am open to your suggestions for selection, and will continue to ignore most of them.
Enough of the congrats on the Blog anniversary!!!
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I would never have mentioned it if I thought that everyone was going to get so sappy and emotional.
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It's just a blog....
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You've got to find more substance in your lives.
Speaking of which, the POTW selections may be delayed this evening because I have to attend a business dinner in Albany, NY.... then drive all the way back to Marblehead. Not to panic though, because this weeks nominations are not too difficult. As aways, I am open to your suggestions for selection, and will continue to ignore most of them.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Moving into the Cycle
September is shaping up as busier than August for Nanepashemet Telecom. And August was close to a show stopper.
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The shift from business development to operations is in full swing. We'll be able to implement the easiest type of business development - repeat business through great service. That's a nice cycle to get into.
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The shift from business development to operations is in full swing. We'll be able to implement the easiest type of business development - repeat business through great service. That's a nice cycle to get into.
A Year of the Blog
This is the first anniversary of the Nanepashemet Blog. On September 5 of last year, I posted an entry regarding the Herreshoff Columbia Yacht Tender, and pretty much posted every day since then.
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The Blog has caused both joy and pain, and I'm amazed at the impact that words can have, and the interest that they can engender. I'll have to admit that the Blog was originally intended as notes to myself, with the added implication that it can't be too frank because of business and confidential situations. The fact that a bunch of other people started to constantly look over my shoulder is both flattering and confusing.
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At times I've gone over the line, which I regret, but in general it has been a fun mode of expression that adds a dimension to my relationship with some of you that I couldn't achieve just by regular discourse.
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People ask where I find the time, but it seems that this Blog gets written by itself sometimes, and I am just a bystander. I've always found it easy to write, and most of this stuff gets done between sips of Dark and Stormies at night or coffee in the morning.
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If you don't like the Blog, then why are you reading this? Life is too short to be preoccupied with getting pissed off at these ramblings. If you do like it, I can't see where I'll be stopping soon.... so RockOn Peeps.
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Keep on Keeping it Real.
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The Blog has caused both joy and pain, and I'm amazed at the impact that words can have, and the interest that they can engender. I'll have to admit that the Blog was originally intended as notes to myself, with the added implication that it can't be too frank because of business and confidential situations. The fact that a bunch of other people started to constantly look over my shoulder is both flattering and confusing.
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At times I've gone over the line, which I regret, but in general it has been a fun mode of expression that adds a dimension to my relationship with some of you that I couldn't achieve just by regular discourse.
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People ask where I find the time, but it seems that this Blog gets written by itself sometimes, and I am just a bystander. I've always found it easy to write, and most of this stuff gets done between sips of Dark and Stormies at night or coffee in the morning.
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If you don't like the Blog, then why are you reading this? Life is too short to be preoccupied with getting pissed off at these ramblings. If you do like it, I can't see where I'll be stopping soon.... so RockOn Peeps.
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Keep on Keeping it Real.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Busy Outlook
Today...., a quick jaunt over to the Salem Waterfront Hotel to check out a work item for Mike Rockett, then lunch with a customer in Central MA, then dinner at the UMASS Club in downtown Boston with Keith DiMatteo who is going to revamp the Nanepashemet Telecom Website.
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Plus, the day starts off bad because Katelyn used all of the towels and brushed her teeth with my toothbrush during her 23 showers this weekend.
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Work on the Dory looks unlikely.
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Plus, the day starts off bad because Katelyn used all of the towels and brushed her teeth with my toothbrush during her 23 showers this weekend.
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Work on the Dory looks unlikely.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Getting Closer
No boat work today.
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It was such a beautiful Labor Day that I offered to take Tom O' Shea out for a spin on Bluefish Alley behind Baker's Island. No strikes but a real comforable ride. I hardly ever get skunked out there between Halfway Rock and the Middle Ledges, but today was won by the fish.
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I did get a little more cleaning and organizing done in the Garage though. The fact that I'm talking about building a boat rather that wholescale redoing the basement is causing more consternation with Joanne and Katelyn, but they will have to get their priorities straight.
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It was such a beautiful Labor Day that I offered to take Tom O' Shea out for a spin on Bluefish Alley behind Baker's Island. No strikes but a real comforable ride. I hardly ever get skunked out there between Halfway Rock and the Middle Ledges, but today was won by the fish.
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I did get a little more cleaning and organizing done in the Garage though. The fact that I'm talking about building a boat rather that wholescale redoing the basement is causing more consternation with Joanne and Katelyn, but they will have to get their priorities straight.
Looking Inside
Sometimes life can seem hard and unfair.
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That's because it really can be.
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But what makes it worse is when you try to assess the blame for everything that ails you to someone or something.
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Instead of looking within for the basis of our discontent, it is far easier to think that our harsh and unfair situations were caused by other's actions and evil intent.
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This never solves the problem because it diverts the attention from the ultimate true source - ourselves and our own outlooks on life. As long as we project our own feelings on others, we can never actually change our feelings and eliminate the issues.
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How can you know what others think, if you can't even be honest with yourself and understand your own thoughts? People are far more engaged in their own problems and generally have neither the time nor the interest to invest in screwing with you.
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So the blame game exaggerates and perpetuates the problems. If we would look within and forgive ourselves, that's always a good beginning.
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That's because it really can be.
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But what makes it worse is when you try to assess the blame for everything that ails you to someone or something.
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Instead of looking within for the basis of our discontent, it is far easier to think that our harsh and unfair situations were caused by other's actions and evil intent.
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This never solves the problem because it diverts the attention from the ultimate true source - ourselves and our own outlooks on life. As long as we project our own feelings on others, we can never actually change our feelings and eliminate the issues.
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How can you know what others think, if you can't even be honest with yourself and understand your own thoughts? People are far more engaged in their own problems and generally have neither the time nor the interest to invest in screwing with you.
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So the blame game exaggerates and perpetuates the problems. If we would look within and forgive ourselves, that's always a good beginning.
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Off Handed
At Murph's Wedding, Jeremy Johnson, an Attorney living in Minnesota, said that he found the Nanepashemet Blog to be surprisingly insightful.
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I'm still trying to understand if that was a compliment.
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Course Murph is a loyal Peep, but I was also intrigued to see all of the people at the wedding who knew the significance of being named a POTW.
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I'm still trying to understand if that was a compliment.
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Course Murph is a loyal Peep, but I was also intrigued to see all of the people at the wedding who knew the significance of being named a POTW.
Gunning Dorys of the World
A quick Web search found these Gunning Dorys on the West Coast.~
There also seems to be a significant amount of interest from France for some reason.
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One thing is certain - the craft does seem to have a natural attraction to some people.
Starting to Reorganize
Yesterday I started the garage reorganization. I cleaned up the floor and moved a lot of stuff around, but it didn't seem like I gained much space. I'm thinking that I have to clean out under the deck, waterproof some space and move the lumber and miscellaneous stuff there. The garage space has to be left for the stationary tools and the project at hand.
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I can use the panels that were made from strapping and plastic tarpaulin to construct the temporary varnishing shed to provide a stop gap measure. It will be ugly, but it already is, so no additional violalation.
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Neither Joanne, nor Katelyn are buying my idea of finishing the basement simultaneously with the Dory work, but I intend to devote time to each.
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By the way, I'm sure that I am afflicted by that hoarding disorder. I just hate to throw stuff away, especially old files, tools, wood and metal. Living in relatively close quarters, this condition has to be aggressively challenged or the Dory will be far harder to construct.
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I can use the panels that were made from strapping and plastic tarpaulin to construct the temporary varnishing shed to provide a stop gap measure. It will be ugly, but it already is, so no additional violalation.
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Neither Joanne, nor Katelyn are buying my idea of finishing the basement simultaneously with the Dory work, but I intend to devote time to each.
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By the way, I'm sure that I am afflicted by that hoarding disorder. I just hate to throw stuff away, especially old files, tools, wood and metal. Living in relatively close quarters, this condition has to be aggressively challenged or the Dory will be far harder to construct.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
A Nice Start
Mike and Beth Murphy were joined in holy matrimony today with a beautiful ceremony in Southborough and a fun reception in Stowe, MA.
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Best wishes to a very nice couple.
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Murph always called Joanne, "Mom", which caused some confusion with some guests in the receiving line.
Practice Makes Perfect.
I dragged Greg Bruett up to the Gerry Club last night in order to get into drinking shape for Murph's wedding. If was great practice because I feel like hell this morning. We'll take the drive from Marblehead to Stow, MA a little after noon time.
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No boat work today.
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No boat work today.
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