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\nIn recent years, our son caught the same “mariner bug” that I was so afflicted with three decades past. But, he has taken to a whole new level: changing to a mariner-orientated engineering job and moving himself and his family to the east coast ocean. He wants direct access to “world sailing.”<\/p>\n

This past week, we made our first visit to their new home.<\/p>\n

They purchased a simple, small house, compared to what they left in Minnesota. But, it is located right on Chesapeake Bay. So now, this former landlubber turned surfer and sailor, refers to it as “beachy all the time.”<\/p>\n

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