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Rubber Rafts & Motors 
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at least 1 and preferably 2 new rafts should be obtained for the next 
trip. Then they can take several of the older rafts and use them until they 
are no longer serviceable before breaking out the new ones. It is definitely 
unwise to rely on rafts that hare been taken\on one or more previous trips. As 
we are now finding out, when you hit really nasty surf conditions, the new 
rafts don't even hold up too well. 
On the motors, we'll just have to wait and see. All sorts of parts such 
as the shift arm have been broken on the ones we're now using. One of the 
motors was submerged and filled completely with sand when we were wiped out 
on Baker Island, Another of the motors was drowned out six times in a row 
when we attempted unsuccessfully to launch the raft through heavy surf on 
Baker during the course of one entire afternoon. Such experiences certainly 
Haven't done either of the motors much good and they are starting to show the 
wear and tear. If we hit any more of the bad stuff during the rest of the trip 
one or both may end up completely shot. 
Statione ry Suivnlies 
Plain Bond - 200 
Air Mail envelops - 40 
Medium Manila envelops - 15 
Large Manilia envelops - 15 
Small Green Memo books - 4 dozen 
Masking Tape - 4 rolls 
((Send no Scotch tape - we now have enough to pave the Golden Gate Bridge) 
12 Marks-a-lot felt pens - several colors but mostly Black, 
Red, green, Blue and Yellow pencils - 2 of each. 
Ballpoint pens - 4 dozen, 
3 bottles Higgins Eternal Ink. 
6 # 0 Rapidographs (we have quite a few #00 on hand) 
5 typewriter erasers (the mice must have eaten the other ones we had) 
((or maybe the Dermestids carried them away)) 
F&W forms: 
Schedules : 600 
Returns : 200 
Recovery: 200 
SI Recovery - 300 
At-Sea forms: 
A - 60 
B - 60 
c - 60 
Journal filler - 3 boxes 
Baggage tags - 60 
((send no mailing tubes - we now have enough to make a pontoon bridge 
under the Golden Gate Bridge,)) 
