Rigging repairs on the boat are done. Nothing major, I had a short list of items I wanted repaired/replaced. The secondary supports for the port and starboard spreaders, and the running backstays. All done and everything is looking great!
The work was done by Jason of Argonaut Rigging. Great vendor! Highly recommend him.
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Aldous Huxley
Arabella Newberry was not only fleeing the life of the Shakers, she was leaving her father behind her. Her father had forced his wife and daughter, Bella, to join a shaker community when Bella was 14 years old. Bella’s mother died a couple of years later of a broken heart.
Though she loved God, Bella could not embrace the Shaker doctrine that forces families to be separated and live as though they were not family at all.
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