The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
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Hurricane Harry and KELASA
Once, 42 days out of Sydney, while beating painfully to windward off the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island, en route to Nelson, he somewhat outrageously wrote that he was starting to like ocean sailing. He’d sailed more than 70,000 miles at that point.