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  I'm planning to buy a sailboat soon. Now, I have a Canadian ensign to fly on her. I'm delighted that #Memphis has the [Flag Center](https://www.flagcenter.com/) so I can buy domestically manufactured flags locally 👍 ... with cash 😋 #Sailing #NotSailing

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  I discovered that my 30 year old foul weather gear no longer keeps the rain out during a torrential downpour while having a potential boat purchase surveyed today 🙁☔⛵. We kept finding little bits of old curled up tape, and were wondering what duct tape nightmare the surveyor might discover, but it turned out to be old seam sealing tape that was crumbling off my jacket 🤦‍♂️ So, it was a relief to discover it wasn't some horrible, hidden, problem with the boat. #SailingNotSailing

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  An object lesson in how dissimilar metals behave in salt water. The current owner of the boat had this steel rudder downhaul cable repaired with an aluminum nicropress fitting just a few months ago. When we hauled it out for a survey inspection, it had completely dissolved! 😮 The owner had to scramble to find a rigger, who installed the correct zinc-coated brass nicropress fitting (pictured), and had to pay for an extra hour of travel lift time. 🤷‍♂️ #Sailing #SailingNotSailing

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  Digital sovereignty: the french government accelerates the reduction of its extra-European dependencies (#GAFAMdetox) - Links - #NixOS Discourse https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071 Very cool. 😎 There is also a mention that this uses #Lix by default.

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  Looking for some temporary letters for my boat name. Maybe these will work? The Coast Guard cool with bedazzling right? #SailingNotSailing

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  I'm sure if happens all the time, but it's a first for me to be awakened by the mooring pendant bumping against the hull. It's so calm out there that all the boats in the mooring field are pointed in different directions. I went up on deck and found that the mooring ball is floating between the main hull and the starboard ama, under the net. It's fine, but a little unnerving. 🫤 #SailingNotSailing

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  Just standing on my diesel engine. #SailingNotSailing

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  It turns out that #Sailing and #Migraines are incompatible 😢

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  Caspar the friendly ghost wishes us a good passage through the Mackie shoal 😋 #Bahamas #Sailing

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  @tsyesika The description of you talk is awesome! I must admit that I've been following @cwebber for a while, but still didn't grok what Spritely was trying to do. Your talk precis finally made it click... I knew it must've been cool, just not how cool 😎

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  Tip for those of you using a browser in the #Mozilla family you can get a list is all the different "about" pages that you're browser can display. about:about #Firefox #bookmark