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Eric recently published his first fiction book "Wings Over Iraq".  It is a historical novel set in Iraq in the turbulent lead up to WWII. The British patrol the oil fields using obsolete bombers. The Germans recruit local tribes to sabotage British efforts, as...

In honor of his latest novel, Wings Over Iraq we present Eric in his RAF uniform.  Eric joined the Royal Air Force in 1950. Here he is in 2014 wearing his original uniform attending a dinner in memory of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I.  

This weekend John and i finished a project which had dragged through winter ; installing a new holding tank.  The strongly built platform  supporting the tank  had to be fiberglassed to the hull, hence the wait for  warm weather.   Capacity is 9 gallons,  see pic...

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Eric Forsyth is giving a talk to the South Bay Cruising Club entitled "Ocean Cruising". He will spell out some of the differences between Ocean and Coastal cruising. All sailors are welcome. Date: Saturday, March 28th Time: 2:00 PM Place:  West Islip Library  Address:...

Peter, the refrigeration tech, diagnosed the freezer problem as a defective cold plate.John, my neighbor, and myself, pulled the freezer apart and discovered the cold plate had lost the eutectic mixture.I fixed the leak and filled it with an antifreeze/water mix. ...

Fiona was hauled this week and is now on a cradle at Weeks yacht yard.   The freezer was not working during the Maine cruise, it has been disassembled and repairs are on-going

Fiona arrived in Patchogue at lunchtime Monday.   A nice sail directly from Cuttyhunk Island.  We logged about 800 nm in the 4 week cruise to Maine.   Apart from Hurricane Dorian at the start we had glorious weather.