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MATILDA, ADVENTURE Sal Balharrie MATILDA, ADVENTURE Sal Balharrie

Enhanced Thinking

Initially we chose four things to spend money on, to make the cruising we intended to do, more enjoyable. In this video we explain what we have done and try to provide the rationale around our choices.

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FLOTSAM Mark Chew FLOTSAM Mark Chew

Flotsam & Jetsam 5.9.25

It’s about time we settled on a name for this page. I’ve found over the last few months that we come across many interesting snippets and links that might be of interest to the readers, but probably aren’t worth a full, stand alone article. So we started a news page, rounding up wooden boat and related stories from the past few days.

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