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Merchant Marine: Land Ho!
    

After forty years as a sailor, Gus retires to become a farmer,

mentor and teacher

and finds an old farmhouse with a big white barn

Gus hires on his crew, here, Dick and Boy ready to do some heavy hauling

Lymey the goat, First Mate

Bos'n duck at his usual place on the 'poop' deck

 Bring on the chow, Jack

then every evening by the light of his old kerosene lamp

out came Gus's little blue British Board of Trade sailing book and more adventures

'Gus', Ture Alfvegren

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 Home from the sea

Bos'n Gus

An exciting story of a man and the personal challenges he faced