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Sad swan they say

ONCE, I lived on my small 22 foot yacht Miss Content for a while in Portsmouth harbour, to save money between making long voyages.

Moving the boat there from Southampton in late summer, I was lucky enough to ‘find’ a free, alongside, berth owned by the Ministry of Defence, who I worked for a bit at the time.

It was just north of the Royal Clarence Victualling

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