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Author: Jim Farrell

The Spruce Production Division

Posted on 06/15/202506/16/2025 by Jim Farrell

In 1914 Europe exploded into what was called the “War to end all wars”, which the USA had tried to stay out of.  The war saw the introduction of many new weapons such as the use of ‘Airoplanes’, which required using light flexible wood for the frames.  The best wood to use was from Spruce…

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 GRANDPA DICK’S BROTHER BILL AND GEORGE

Posted on 05/12/202505/12/2025 by Jim Farrell

By Jeri Farrell-Shaw The year of the snow, Grandpa Dick’s Brother Bill was working with the Bunyan outfit in the Washington Cascades.  Cold? That year it was so cold that when trying to speak outside, words would freeze in midair, and fall to the ground without a sound.  Come the thaw in the spring, all…

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Lorine (Mom) Pursley Farrell

Posted on 05/11/2025 by Jim Farrell

By Jim Farrell On May 3, 2022, she would have been100 years-old, an age she wanted to achieve, but she died three and a half years ago.  This lady was raised in the logging camps of the Olympic Peninsula, on the “west end”, where the only way to even reach Port Angeles, WA was by…

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CROW’S NEST

Posted on 04/12/202504/12/2025 by Jim Farrell

By Ines Bojlesen Aye, I come from back and beyond, my barking irons, long gone.  I have encountered many a buccaneer, corsair, filibuster, while sailing under a letter of marque.  I’ve gone on account, I’ve walked the plank, zenith so close to being the end.  Boreas saved me and lifted me to safety.  No more…

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Maiden Voyage

Posted on 03/28/202503/28/2025 by Jim Farrell

By Becky Wehrli Jim and I set off on my first ocean voyage yesterday on Autumn Daze at 4am, from Warrenton, OR to Neah Bay, WA.  As I sit here on the swim deck of our 43’ Beneteau enjoying the placid water of the bay, watching freighters pass in the Strait of Juan de Fuca,…

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