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Welcome to Twoflower's blog!




Twoflower is a character from Terry Prachett's stories.  He's the world's first tourist and believes that as long as he doesn't get involved, nothing bad can happen to him.  Mostly, he's correct.  Here's a linky if you want to read a bit more:  https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Twoflower

In our world, Twoflower is a 1979 30' O'Day sailboat.  She's well outfitting for cruising the Great Lakes, and has mostly been well maintained.  She was sadly neglected for a handful of years as her original owner got older, and then sold to new owners.  The new owners did a BUNCH of work to combat the previous neglect, then sold her to us in November of 2020.  Yay us!

If we get technical here, I'll be as accurate as I can.  For the rest, we may not let the truth (or grammar, or spelling) get in the way of a good story.

We have been working steadily for a few months to get her ready.  We are leaving in the next day or two.  We are feverishly packing.

Chuck & Sheila are crew.  It's pretty easy to see who is the admiral.



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