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Nigel Calder and the Holy Grail

y first exposure to Nigel Calder, same as most people, was through reading his great marine technical bible, . I studied it constantly during the years I spent as a liveaboard cruiser during the 1990s and referred to it simply as “Nigel Calder’s How to Fix Everything Book.” The first time I actually met the man, at a boat show in 1997, where I pestered him about a

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