Building Before Sailing

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May 6, 2012

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By Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, author of Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. I‘m going about it backwards, I know. Normally, you would fall in love with sailing and then, after much consideration and fanfare, you might embark on a big project to build your own boat. My story doesn’t follow that way. Over the past several summers since we moved to Maine, I’ve fallen in love with riding in a boat, but I’ve only performed the maneuvers of sailing our 34’ yawl, JESTER, under strict instruction, and somewhat nervously. I’ve never sailed alone, and, frankly, I’m petrified by the idea of finding…

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