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Dennis Pogson
 
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Default Avon Redcrest

Dave wrote:
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:29:13 -0800, "Gordon"
said:

Ask not for whom the terrorist bell tolls; it tolls for thee, and
thee, and thee--for decent, innocent people everywhere.


Please don't illustrate your illiteracy--before you start butchering
it, start out with a clean text. The source is John Donne
(1572-1631). He was too good a poet for his work to suffer such
indignities. The poem starts out "No man is an island, Entire of
itself." The part you were referring to is the last 3 lines, which
read, in context:

"Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."


Obviously John Donne had never rowed an Avon Redcrest, he would not have
lived as long as that if he had!

Seriously, they aren't too bad to row, but a more modern design with
inflatable keel/floor is much easier.

OK with the outboard bracket and the redoubtable Seagull on it!

Dennis.