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A Fistful of Splicing Fids

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Hand Abrasives Round-up

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Safety Gear for Kids

Subscribers Only Seven life vests take the plunge: Stearns rises to the top.

Compact Cookers

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Voltmeters for the dweeb in all of us

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The Custom Marine Computer

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Getting a handle on VHFs

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Dufour 44

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Mailport: 07/06

The high price of safety rules

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Eco-friendly Bottom Paints 2012

February 01, 2012

There are very few times when the door to my office is closed. Bottom paint rating tabulation time is one of them. For the past week I’ve been poring over bottom paint data collected earlier this month – three Excel tables representing more than 300 data points. Although mammoth data tables are not what drew me into this business, the bottom paint program is still one of my favorite projects. I’ve spent enough time scrubbing and scraping and painting to appreciate the importance of what we do.

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