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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Stamp of the day: boat with little outboard motor
This Swedish stamp from 2002 invokes many Swedish summer memories for me. A simple wooden boat, with oars for slow moving and fishing, and then the little engine for the times when you have to get home for dinner or the wind is in your face and you need some extra help. Our sailing boat had a slightly larger version than this, a 7.5 hp Mercury outboard motor, and when it was stormy you really hoped it would start. It did, because it had replaced an older, smaller engine that was not so reliable. Maybe that was an Evinrude, I don't remember. But most of the time we sailed in our 18-foot sailing boat with 5 people and two dogs for weeks... the outboard engine was just for storms, when the wind was wrong, or when you had to get through locks or under bridges.

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