oh my spelling mistake its Tom Dabney and looking him up on line Dabney
Sailmaker still in business. He used to make sails for a friend of mines sabre
38.I think they were school buddies.JimGalaxy 34Brielle, nj
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Keith says:
"Safety is a wash.
you either have a 13' pole hanging on a line with both ends detached,
but unloaded.
or you have a 13' pole attached to the mast but the free end moving at a
high rate of speed toward your bowman on the pointy end.
Neither is inherently safer than the other.