Learning from Experience; My Biggest Disaster and What it Taught Me.

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June 15, 2012

Ginny Jones

Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s Gannon and Benjamin (on Martha’s Vineyard) owned a 72’ yawl named ZORRA. Purchased at a Federal Marshal’s Auction in 1986, she had had a fire onboard that had badly burned portions of her interior and filled the rest of her full of smoke. When she arrived in Vineyard Haven under sail after the engine had seized just as she left the dock in Virginia, she was a mess. Over the years, after she arrived in her new homeport, and in between passages, she was rebuilt and turned into a very shapely, comfortable…

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