First Look, First Night Together, and the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship

I walked through the gravel yard past an old ferrocement slop to the long rickety wooden dock with the first slip occupied by an old steel hulled live aboard with a captain looking to have been cast for the part, the little mahogany bow pulpit and spoon bow of a ComPac caught my eye – it was my ComPac – there she was, the most beautiful girl on the dock, and I was walking to take her hand in this dance.  There she was, and she was everything I could have hoped she would be.

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