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Jan. 1: Removed sharp objects from office ummer seems like a long way in the past as I sit here in my office, looking out across a sea of empty moorings in Marblehead Harbor. The sun is shining brightly in a brilliant Arizona-like sky, but at this latitude it seems low on the horizon, even at noon. All the warmth and coziness that we feel when we watch the summer sun turn everything orange as it sinks in the west is, well, just not there. That final boating day last October seems like a past age. Muscobe emerged in the straps of the Travelift with a dirty bottom, after only 42 hours of steaming the entire summer season. Diesel fuel at four-dollars-plus per gallon had turned those little excursions up to Gloucester, or over to Boston Harbor, into one-hundred-dollar events. So more boating time was spent just sitting on the mooring, listening to music, and hanging out with friends. The days are still getting shorter, but I am cheered by the fact that, in exactly one week sunset will be a minute or so later each day than the god-awful 4:15 it is now. Still, Marblehead can be beautiful, even at this time of year. However, while a few hardy members of the fishing
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Muscobe in the slings.
Photo by Joel Gleason
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