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04/07/2004: "Five Weeks Before the Mast"

The tent poles are ten feet apart, more or less. The first tent is forty feet by one hundred, and the two behind it are at least half again as big. With the two smaller tents across the grounds, that's well over twenty thousand feet under canvas. If we were a clipper ship, we'd be ready to weigh anchor and set sail for the orient. Bon voyage!