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Post #3522449
2026-06-30 21:36 UTC
While digging through my old song lyrics file for pub-sing updates, I found this text, Gordon Bok's liner notes on “Bay of Fundy”:
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@zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-06-30 21:36
"This is about a long and weary, windless trip from Maine around to Halifax on a little black schooner that seemed to move only by the slatting of her gear. We had a coal stove in her, and the foresail used to downdraft onto the charlienoble, turn the stack into an intake and the cabin into a chimney. So, with the coalgas and the wet, the offwatch was not much more comfortable than the deadwatch." https://lyrics.gordonbok.com/disc/bayoffundy.html