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Old 09-23-2007
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Thanks Paul,
That jogged my memory, I do remember now. The ship was the Ernestine out of New Bedford, Mass. We would do the balentine then from the balentine to a coil, the balentine first to remove any twist in the line. I've got to grew on a schooner again just for practice.


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