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Why I have torn up my insurance policy

have been sailing for more than 50 years and have owned 10 sailing boats. I have cruised them from the Dutch Frisian Islands to Cherbourg and from the Solent to the River Humber and into most ports, anchorages and rivers in between. These boats have been kept on swinging moorings, both drying and in deep water, in mud-berths and marinas and on embankments and pontoons. I have sailed solo

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