From: Kevin Patterson
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 11:07 PM
To: John Curry
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Hey John:

I wonder if you could tell me how I might order a new sail for my hydrovane? I’d also like to order the stern light case and the sunbrella cover as well. Since last we spoke, I sailed to the Marquesas, Raiatea, Kauaii, and home again—the hydrovane performed flawlessly. I might have hand steered fifty of those miles and she gybed perhaps three or four times. Last summer I went up to Haida Gwaii and the Hydrovane steered me across the strait to Rose Harbour.

I have a new book coming out with Random House and Doubleday next year about the ocean, intertwined with a travel narrative about that last trip around the Pacific. I mention how impressed I am with the device in there. I’ll let you know when there is a pub date.

Kevin Patterson
Saltspring Island, BC, Canada

Editor’s Note: Kevin is a doctor and a writer. He wrote a most hilarious tale “The Water In Between” about fleeing from his old life by finding a boat and going to sea – and he was a novice – before he got a Hydrovane. I read it twice …. just as good the second time.

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