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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5771832 | Clew board with traveller for self tacking head sails A sail fastening apparatus (18) for a yacht. The apparatus (18) comprises a first track (21) extending along a sail clew (12) in a direction generally normal to a preferred vertical sheeting angle of the sail, a first carriage (22) slidably mounted for mo... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5095838 | Clew fitting for a boom A sailboard boom clew fitting member comprising a pair of members (11 and 12) engagable with the ends of a pair of boom members of the boom. One member (11) having a transversely directed socket. The pawl (13) being snugly engagable in the socket and bein... | 03/17/1992 |
| 3988996 | Clew cringle The cringle or grommet disclosed is adapted for applying substantial loads to a fabric sail such, for instance, as a main sail or a genoa jib, and may be located at the clew of the sail to which point some rope or the like is attached for trimming the sai... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3935619 | Grumment for sail cloth A grumment for sail cloth in which two rings are positioned around the edge of a hole therein which edge has been ravelled and has a thermosetting adhesive smeared thereon and tightly clamped against the edge by a torus-shaped collar enclosing the rings.... | 02/03/1976 |
