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Old 11-05-2018, 10:09 PM
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Were you a rigger in a prior life?

Bill
No, but I did work in a sail loft, and the rigging shop was downstairs. However, higher tech fibers like Spectra did not exist back in the day when I worked there...They were just putting kevlar in sails then and still learning how much that kevlar, while a wonderful synthetic fabric, did NOT like being exposed to UV one bit.
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