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Tom Snyder
My latest reorg Focusing on elaborate systems. Dodge Morgan
Sad and good tidings in life’s news
Volume 11, Number 9 Publisher Joseph Burke
Lots of changes afoot. Dave Roper
The truth about mermaids The sighting changed his life. D E PA R T M E N T S Letters..........................................7 How to donate a boat; Unexplained light phenomenon.
Media ........................................50 “A Hard-Water World,” an icefishing book.
Mystery Harbor...........................10 Winners were liveaboards there; New mystery harbor, page 63.
Yardwork ...................................52 South Shore Boatworks; Cape Yachts; Lyman-Morse
News ..........................................17 USCG rescues four sailors; 100-foot ship sinks of Newfoundland.
Fetching Along ............................68 Islands have secrets
Dispatches ..................................18 Marinas clean up their acts.
Calendar.....................................71 Newport Winter Festival
The Racing Pages ........................44 Marion-Bermuda update; Mainer to circle world in a 10-foot boat.
Advertisers .................................86
SPECIAL SECTION
Cape Cod Boatbuilders’ Show Check out the program for the 3rd Annual Cape Cod Boatbuilders’ show on pages 40-43.
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