Yachting World

SKIP NOVAK

When I started this column more than five years ago I began with a nostalgic tour down the Hamble River, which seemed like a good place to start–so much yachting history, so many stories fuelled by so many pints downed in all those pubs.

Well, we are back there again. On 31 August, the King and Queen, the yachtsman’s favourite pub, was host to an ad hoc reunion of Whitbread crews campaign, the idea began with a simple mailshot to a few of the likely suspects in the area and snowballed from there.

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