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A story about Lara...

We were in Lems Cove, the eastern part of Bucks Harbor, when Lara came barreling in with the genny still up. They attempted to grab a mooring while going downwind, can't remember if they lost the boat hook or not. After that didn't stop them they motored around all the moored boats, came by us and asked where the yacht club was? We pointed west and they continued through the mooring field genny blowing like crazy, apparently they had wrapped the furling line.

The next day we were on one of Eatons moorings in Castine, I was sailing the Puffin when Lara came into the harbor around the TSSOM and in one of the more amusing attempts at docking I've seen T-boned the town dock, I saw the leading edge of the keel come out of the water! They had quite a head of steam on. The harbor master was walking down the hill towards the dock and saw the mast pitch back about 30 degrees. He kindly let them stay on the town dock overnight.

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