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went for anchor [[underlined]] [[same?]] offshore 
March 24. [[/underlined]] Wind has shifted in West so at 10 AM left Long Key under sail and reduced power. Excellent weather and wind Explored shores of [[underlined]] Blackwater Sound [[/underlined]] and anchored in its [[underlined]] Northern [[/underlined]] corner.
[[underlined]] March 25. [[/underlined]] spent morning exploring [[underlined]] two lakes [[/underlined]] without name and which connect thru narrow passage at Northerly shore of Blackwater with [[underlined]] sail pram See Log book [[strikethrough]] March 26 [[/strikethrough]] Afternoon left [[underlined]] square sail and mizzen [[/underlined]] Excellent wind. Dropt anchor just South of Arseniker Key
[[underlined]] March 26. [[/underlined]] Strong Southerly breeze excellent sailing weather left about 8:30 Dropt anchor at about noon at [[underlined]] Coconut Grove [[/underlined]] Strong breeze first on the quarter
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then abeam. [[underlined]] Sail rig behaved perfectly. [[/underlined]] A very enjoyable run. Caught another [[underlined]] large mackerel, trawling. [[/underlined]]
At Coconut Grove found long stupid [[underlined]] night letter of Weger merely repeating requests [[/underlined]] I [[strikethrough]] des [[/strikethrough]] refused before.
[[underlined]] March 27. [[/underlined]] Morning went to [[underlined]] Miami [[/underlined]] to inquire for return trip. Hotels seem rather empty and less crowd everywhere Am assured there will be no trouble taking care of me on boat.
Afternoon, followed [[underlined]] Herreshoff [[/underlined]] cup sail races in [[underlined]] my sailing pram
March 28 [[/underlined]] (Sunday) The run of spent [[underlined]] raisins [[/underlined]] (10 lb) + 3 lbs cane syrup started 1 week ago has fully fermented [[underlined]] all sugar transformed in C2H5OH. [[/underlined]] This evidently was too weak a sugar solution. I added to day 1 1/2 lbs. corn syrup It started fermenting again.
[[Left margin written vertically strikethrough]] The first I added 6 lb sugar [[/Left margin written vertically strikethrough]]

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I use past tense 'underlined' with a 'd' because that is my understanding from the instructions. It seems a waste of time to edit just to remove the 'd' in 'underlined'. If I review and the transcriber just uses 'underline' I do not add the 'd'