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Curtis Prince

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Buoyancy blows my mind! When I was a little kid I used to float sticks and leaves down the creak, alone for hours, steering them around the bends and guiding them through the rapids with another longer stick, just to watch them float. When I got older I traded in my floating stick for a real boat... That's when I got in trouble! I grew up on boats, I was probably on one while still in the womb, and if I'm lucky I'll die on one too. There's only one thing I love more than boats, and that's soft crabs. I have over 50 yrs. working on boats and 20 of those have been spent sailing and fitting out voyaging sailboats. I'm currently fitting out Bella Sera, my Crealock 37, hull #15 for a voyage to Patagonia.

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