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Subject: [Fwd: last week in Folly Beach]

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:57:19 -0600

From: "Yvonne C. Allen"

To: Charles Ramcharan , Mathias Allen , Marcus Allen , Micheal Ernst , "Busdiver@aol.com" , "gkastorf@mail.state.wi.us" , "dkerkhof@chorus.net" , "lokken@engr.wisc.edu" , "lonna_temple@pleasantco.com" , "nonlinear@mindspring.com" , "danno@chorus.net" , "milo.parker@ccmail.adp.wisc.edu" , "pamooney@students.wisc.edu" , "stan_smith@flad.com" , "mxwbr@aol.com" , "WHoldik@t-online.de" , Gerald Longenecker , "jcwacker@facstaff.wisc.edu" , "oracle@dodona.com" , "gernot@genome.clemson.edu" , "SHURTS_Kathy_A@ssmhcs.com"

Dear Friends:
We just had a major breakthrough aboard Libelle this morning. Peter had good copy with a "Wally", a ham friend of Stan and Sue, in Kenosha and Wally could hear us. Our first successful transmission on the SSB! Wally has agreed to monitor his radio each day and will forward our position and brief messages to Vonnie on the days when "propagation" allows us to communicate. Unfortunately we could not talk to Paul on Herz II in Savanna one hour later.

A dip in the Folly River under the hull at noon proved that we will need to have the boat hauled before we leave. There's "hairy stuff" about four inches long growing on the prop even though the diver cleaned the bottom about one month ago. Hence; we will be moving to Ross Marine next weekend for scheduled haul-out on Mon. May 3.

Matt has been a great help with our projects and the Windpilot installation is almost complete. Gernot was visiting with us last Sat. when we had a great evening of crabbing off our finger dock - 9 blues and one stone crab. We only took one of the claws off the stone and threw him back. Of course that same crab later got tangeled in in the string we use to raise and lower the trap. Gernot was quite good at getting the crabs out of the trap after I got a bloody finger on the first one.

We continue to wish each of you ALLES GUTE von LIBELLE.