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Falmouth Classic 2019

t times leading up to the three-day Falmouth Classics weekend, the weather forecast was not at all favourable but when it came to it – (a Harrison Butler-design built in Malaya in 1935), Lionel Hoare’s (a 1994 replica of a gaff-rigged Seaview Mermaid), Miles Pinchin’s Cornish Shrimper and Nigel Reed’s Mirror 16 .

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