Milton & Jimmie

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I neglected to tell the story about Milton & Jimmie who we met in Oriental a little while ago.

As I said before, the public dock in Oriental is a great place to meet people. Many of them come around and open a conversation with the line, "Nice Westsail." Well, last night an older couple came up and they said, "Nice Westsail."

We introduced ourselves. They are Milton & Jimmie. It turns out that they know Westsails very well because they owned one for 26 years. We invited them to come aboard and go below so that they could see Tarwathie. It's always fun to see other Westsails, because they're all so similar but no two are alike.

Well it was an emotional scene, especially for Jimmie. I thought she was going to cry. Three years ago, they sold her and bought a trawler. Trawlers are more suitable for seniors who aren't up to the strain of sailing any more. The truth is however that they dearly missed their Westsail, and seeing Tarwathie brought back a flood of those memories. You see Milton & Jimmie dearly loved their Westsail.

Now, Milton & Jimmie are doing The Great Loop in their Eagle 40 trawler Our Way. Keep your eye out for them as they go by.
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p.s. I'm testing a new feature on Blogger that lets me write posts in advance, and submit them for posting in the future. That makes certain things easier for me, but it might subtract from the contemporary flavor of my posts. I'll set all advance posts with the location byline saying "somewhere" and set the post time to at 01:01 AM, so you can tell. If you think these advance posts superior or inferior than others please let me know.