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    Bob Allenick

    Bob Allenick has held a 50 Ton USCG Masters License since 2013. He and Sheila both grew up sailing and have been sailing together on their own keel boats since 1986. Bob and Sheila left Cleveland in the summer of 2017. Learn more about their adventures at herdiamond.net.

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    Social Distancing Afloat

    Ensconced in the cocoon-like security and comfort of our home, a Freedom 38 sailboat named Her Diamond, I turn my attention away from the 24-hour coronavirus news cycle and I reflect. I am saddened by...

    Bob Allenick
    April 14, 2020
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    Lessons from Experience

    A refit turns a Great Lakes daysailer into a Caribbean cruiser Issue 128: Sept/ Oct 2019 When my wife, Sheila, and I bought Her Diamond, our 1991 Freedom 38, she was the ideal daysailer and vacation b...

    Bob Allenick
    September 1, 2019
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