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DINGY DINGHY BLUES There once was a beautiful, shiny white dinghy. We sailed her and rowed her and motored her happily. Then we towed her behind our bigger boat while on a weeklong cruise. On the way back, we stowed her hull-side-up on deck for a longer passage. It was a beautiful sunny day. The next day, the dinghy had turned brown and yucky. We tried washing and scrubbing and all kinds of boat cleaners with no success. But then I remembered the miracle home product in our kitchen cupboard, Bar Keepers Friend. It was developed in 1882 by an American chemist who noticed his pot was very shiny after cooking rhubarb: he formulated an ingredient in rhubarb into a talcum powder and sold it to taverns around the town.…

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Practical Boat Owner (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2015

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