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The sun has set on the last day of this year’s cruising. We will be off Port Everglades inlet (Fort Lauderdale) at first light. A winter dock lies in wait, as do e-mails and phone calls too numerous to contemplate. The whirl starts back tomorrow. The recent sojourn across the Atlantic Ocean has been one of our more enjoyable long passages, made all the more so by friends, new and old, on both sides of the pond.<\/p>\n
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While a strong case could be made for continuing, too long doing the same thing is never good. On land there are family and friends, an exciting design on which to work, favorite restaurants, and the collage basketball season. We are comforted knowing that Wind Horse will await our return.<\/p>\n
A footnote on the last few days. We have gotten out of the habit of dragging a fishing lure as experience has taught it is more efficient to buy than catch fish. But with an avid fisherman aboard, we offered Pete the contents of our abandon ship bag to rummage for lures, found a length of Spectra line, and began to sharpen the filleting knife. We said mahi mahi, wahoo, or yellow fin tuna were all acceptable table fare. The evidence of Pete’s catch is undeniably recorded hereafter. When evaluating this record bear in mind that the camera tends to shrink fish in the same manner it does waves.<\/p>\n
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