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MetroMPG · 06-27-2011, 10:46 AM

Hi Bob - we definitely had wobbly legs upon climbing onto the wharf in Lunenburg! Had a good laugh over that.

But I never really left the world of hybrids - the boat was a 2-mode wind/diesel machine, and we used both modes at different times.

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