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Stern warning: one man’s mission to clear the rotting boats poisoning Cornwall’s creeks
Jehol, a 1970s Westerly Centaur – one of the most popular British-made yachts – is a boat that Green is in the process of tackling. “She has changed hands for £1 four times, always to people with a dream and the best intentions,” he says. “But life takes over.”
Life Imitates Art
Bolivar, sometimes known as Porky, an experienced fisherman whose hands are large and whose plastic sandals are held together with tape, has done something stupid. To make enough money to fix it before his pursuers cut off his ears, he needs to catch fish.