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    Going Spare

    Dec 10, 2019 5 minutes

    In January 1987 we set off to sail around the world (we didn’t make it beyond the Caribbean) with a one-year-old daughter and Terrie three months pregnant. (Now you know why we didn’t make it be-I yond the Caribbean.) I had on board a vacuum pump for refrigeration repairs, a small oxy-acetylene kit for welding, a complete spare variable propeller unit, injectors and injector pipes, and a considerable stock of other parts along with the tools (including woodworking tools) to repair and replace most things on Nada. Terrie had a sewing machine, sailcloth and associated supplies. In 1987, self-sufficiency was the order of the day.

    Between 1987 and today we have had a revolution in communications (Internet and satellites) and transportation (FedEx, UPS and DHL). There is now hardly a corner of the world, and certainly nowhere where

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