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[[preprinted]] OCTOBER  SUNDAY-24 [[/preprinted]]

Rain. A working on P.R. story. I read papers & planned & ripped up more of grey coat.
Started wine - - ([[Comers?]] ice cafés)
Big wind all night - not much sleep.

[preprinted]] MONDAY-25 [[/preprinted]]

75 mile gale. most of day spent looking storm. Tin boat drifted, A & Charlie Scudder fetched it to Erwin's mooring. Coal box & contents blew off, A & I out at high tide & tied rope it & towed it to winter dock.
A worked on drawing in afternoon & I to Huntington for stove pipe & food

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[[preprinted]] OCTOBER  TUESDAY-26 [[/preprinted]]

A dug trench for keel, put down bricked path for water to flow along. Got stuff off tin boat.
Down in Mona to lower mooring, dropped mooring & drew bearings (put in cash journal) Back to Halesite winter dock, tied masts, fixed lines, put up stove pipe. Worked on drawing.
I to Huntington mailed check to Bill, got chop suey for supper, & almond cakes
Wrote to Chall to send coat.

[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY-27 [[/preprinted]]

Dried & took off sails & jigger boom, put tin boat along side. Worked on P.R. drawing & in evening until 9.15
I sewed & posed, next to stove.
A's cold & cough quite severe.

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