Ed Podolak has passed away

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Thanks Larry. He wasn't close close, but a guy you knew from the beach, and I just wanted to get word out. Just sad to see the old guys fade away, but hey, better than the alternative - Ed certainly got plenty of time in the sand.

I don't know if you remember me out there raking sand eels back before I learned the error of my ways. If they were out deep I'd free swim for them. Ed got a hoot out of that, and one day out of the blue he came up to me on the beach and presented me with a rake.
He had made me a custom stainless steel sand eel rake like the one he made himself (somewhere along the line he was a machinist). Each tine had a screw at it's base on the other side of the head, and you could take out the screw and remove the tine for replacement or sharpening. Piece of work!