Practical Boat Owner

How to get ahead

Sam Llewellyn writes nautical thrillers and edits The Marine Quarterly. He is currently patching up a 30ft ketch

Scientists maintain that most of the heat lost by the human organism comes out of the head. Much of this is of course lost via the mouth, in the form of hot air or other nonsense.

But at least some of it probably escapes via the rest of the noggin. Conventional ways of battling this tendency are

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