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Miscellanea

This week we seem to have accumulated a locker full of small items that we thought we should clear out, by putting them all into one big news post.

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The End of the Affair

A lot of thought went into how she should look and It was about this time that one of the crew said, “this would be a great boat to take to Southport”. There is a world of difference between harbour racing and heading offshore for a 400-mile race, as I was about to find out.

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