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<\/span>It is always sad when we lose a dear friend.\u00a0 I received a phone call from my fellow Maritime Mobile Net buddy, Tim Foy, AA6GP, informing me that Herb Lundin, WA6LOB (SK), had passed on.\u00a0 Herb and I were not only sailing buddies but enjoyed ham radio and boats as a dual hobby.\u00a0 Herb and I worked many nights on 2 meters when he kept his sailboat in the SC Yacht Harbor.\u00a0 In the mid-1980s, Herb crewed on a friend\u2019s boat on a trip to Honolulu.\u00a0 Herb brought aboard his HF rig and a couple of whip antennas and a tuner.\u00a0 We established a nightly sked and I worked him all the way to Oahu.\u00a0 His complaint was that he had to hang over the stern to change antennas for 20\/40\/15 meters.\u00a0 I believe the boat was a Catalina 30 with not much freeboard.\u00a0 Propagation was great and we had lengthy QSOs.\u00a0 In those days boats all checked in with the Pacific MM and Seafarers Nets.\u00a0 If Herb couldn\u2019t make contact, I relayed his position reports. Herb was also a musician and often played ukulele with a group at the Elkhorn Yacht Club in Moss Landing.\u00a0 He sold his last boat about a year ago.\u00a0 He was on P dock, adjacent to the Cal 34, Misty, which I regularly crewed on.\u00a0 We joked about it, but Herb insisted that guests on his boat bring aboard white wine only as he hated to clean his carpet of hard-to-remove stains.\u00a0 Together we crewed in the Wednesday Night Beer Can races for a few seasons.\u00a0 Once, Herb saved our lives when I couldn\u2019t get the spinnaker down when entering the harbor. The wind was howling at 15-20 knots.\u00a0 I was too short to grab and pull the pole down to foredeck level. Herb, being taller, jumped up and wrestled the pole down where we could release the fore guy.\u00a0 We were almost on the rocks by the Crow\u2019s Nest restaurant.\u00a0 The large crowd would have been treated to a spectacular crunching of fiberglass and swimming sailors had he not acted quickly.<\/p>\n Herb was a very good machinist and worked for Pratt and Whitney, building aircraft engines \u2013 some of which I probably worked on.\u00a0 They powered most of our naval aircraft including, the four-engine R6D.\u00a0 I have many thousands of hours in the latter aircraft and never lost an engine.\u00a0 Herb also manufactured high precision dental instruments for Dr. Jacklich, my former next-door-neighbor.\u00a0 If you had a root canal, perhaps one of Herb\u2019s products was used.<\/p>\n 73 Herb,<\/p>\n Art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is always sad when we lose a dear friend.\u00a0 I received a phone call from my fellow Maritime Mobile Net buddy, Tim Foy, AA6GP, informing me that Herb Lundin, WA6LOB (SK), had passed on.\u00a0 Herb and I were not …<\/p>\n