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Memories of the Atlantic

We asked readers for their memories of sailing across the Atlantic. Here were some of your replies:

On our first crossing in 2002, a minke whale surfaced 2m to starboard and stared at me for a long time. On our second crossing in 2012 my abiding memory is finding that the mountings of the windvane had cracked the stern and we had to hand steer for the

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