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    Edward Lawler

    Ed Lawler has been sailing on Massachusetts and Rhode Island waters since the 1970s, first on a Sunfish, and since the 1980s on Kestrel, a Bristol 24 he has co-owned with Scott Drew. Ed and Scott have sailed the Chesapeake with Keith Hausknecht on Keith’s Bristol 29.9, Tarwathie, since the early 2000s. The three sailors and friends have worked together in the environmental chemistry and consulting fields for even longer.

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    A Squall, a Broken Shackle, and Hydrolock

    A Bristol and her crew are schooled on the Chesapeake Issue 128: Sept/Oct 2019 It was a calm, foggy Friday morning in Rock Creek, just southeast of Baltimore. The day before, Keith, Scott, and I had s...

    Edward Lawler
    September 1, 2019
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