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At Home In Sydney
“Definitely.” That was the answer Finn Irvine gave when asked if it was a bit crazy to buy an old wooden boat to charter, especially in Sydney’s hot climate. Nonetheless, a fruitful outcome is proving that sometimes crazy is the way to go. The boat i
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Food For Thought
Last night I was lecturing in Plymouth. Part of the story involved a 650-mile beat from Cape Farewell in Greenland to Newfoundland in the 35-tonne pilot cutter Hirta. We’d seven of us on board, including my wife Roz and our four-year-old daughter Han
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The Magic Of Bibbidy
Anyone who’s visited Salcombe in Devon by boat recently will know that, for most of the summer, its picturesque estuary is heaving with motorboats. Most of these are large RIBs which crisscross between the moored yachts endlessly, causing a dispropor

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