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Why choose a yacht?

Your lead article and comments from Skip Novak in the December issue triggered my thoughts.

When planning our retirement, my wife and I were in two minds as to whether we would be safer going down the power or sail route, having some experience of both. We were very tempted by a smart Antares inboard power cruiser at the Southampton boat show at the time.

However, we have since focused exclusively on sailing and the reasons

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