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Weekly Contest #240
As sure as the wind whispering “go” at the back of my neck, I knew my buddy Dan wouldn’t want us to delay our sailing trip to the Keys. Not with a forecast predicting fair winds for days. Not when our 32-foot Catalina sailboat was fully provisioned and ready to go. Nah. He'd be raising a cold one in heaven. “Red sky at morning,” my wife Jeanne said as she handed me her duffle and climbed aboard. I finished the phrase in my mind: Sailors take warning. “I don’t like leaving on a Friday either,” she added for good measure, although we often wen...
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