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‘As the engine spluttered and conked out, panic resumed’

Cruising on the notoriously rocky yet stunningly beautiful north Welsh coast is not exactly the most ideal starting place for a young, naive couple, who’ve watched too many YouTube videos, to learn some lessons from the sea. We’d bought an old 28ft 1967 Colvic Sea Rover named Good Tidings, an overly fibre-glassed tank of a boat that makes up for its sluggishness with oodles of space. We had the boat in the marina at Pwllheli for about a month, enough time to get to grips with her and learn the basics of sailing, or so we thought…

We had made good progress along the coast for two ‘zero beginners’. We enjoyed the beautiful Cardigan Bay, with it’s stunning backdrop

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