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PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Chew PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Chew

Bald Faced Self Promotion!

A quick scan of the images shows that 13 are of wooden or “traditional” craft, so lets call it 16%. My unscientific gut feeling suggests that about 1% of all yacht racing would be done in these sort of craft so in a sense classic boats are rewardingly over represented.

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