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FLOTSAM Mark Chew FLOTSAM Mark Chew

Flotsam & Jetsam 09.10.26

A big week of news and opinion, including meaningless Naples, a Vertue to Greenland, The SAWBF open for entries, Motorboat dreaming, different maps of the same place and anchoring stories.

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ADVENTURE Charlie Salter ADVENTURE Charlie Salter

What goes Around Comes Around

Melbourne based SWS has a loyal readership of 200+ in Denmark each week. We hope its the sailing stories and not ‘Something about Mary’. We recently received emails from Jens and Klaus Toyberg-Frandzen. They asked if SWS could get a letter and photo to Bill.

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