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Two-finger helm

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Boston Harbor sail in May 2016. I loved helming XD, she was so easy to balance. (If you need more than two fingers to steer a boat, you are doing something wrong, said the captain who taught me how to helm "big boats".) Photo credit: A. Tibbetts.