It's hard to imagine anyone recovering sufficiently from the loss of a nearly new schooner to commission a second one—different, bigger, and better— designed and built by the same pair of craftsmen as the first. Unless we're shipping magnates or the U.S. Navy, few of us order more than one boat from a single builder, and still fewer of us think in terms of "community" when it comes to owning boats, large or small.
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