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Greetings friends, I readily admit to having sailed more miles with the lap of doilies on the arms of my reading chair than with the lap of waves on the hull. In this way I have circumnavigated again and again. Some of the books that have taken me away I even own. While looking through my closet of tomes I came upon an old volume that I read many years ago and enjoyed but put aside as just another old sailing story. This time I was intrigued by the cover. It was plain soiled canvas with only a red embossing of a gaff rigged double ender. On the spine it said The cruise of the Teddy . I opened it up to the publishers page and saw it was an original printed in 1931. It was written by Erling Tambs, a Nowiegan. There were a few black and white photos scattered throughout the chapters. They clearly depicted a hansom vessel very like our own Alajuelas. So I re-read it. It's amazing how we all change. Though I can't recall the owner of this apothesism, it's appropriate: No man crosses the same river twice. It's not the same river and he's not the same man. How true. The words I read once that only entertained me, now made a much stronger impression. You see, Mr Tambs was sailing an Ingrid. He writes an earnest tale of a cruise to the south pacific with his wife Julie. Along the way a dog comes aboard and two children come to grace the Teddy's decks. Time and again he extolls the sailing qualities of the Teddy. The boat just amazes him. Many of his comments from over 80 years ago we have made here, on the A-list. I encourage you all to seek out this book. A quick search at Amazon shows it's out of print, but there was a third printing in 1958. Good luck, fair winds, Dennis