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A tradition continued…

Compared with fixing brains or the science of designing rockets, writing about yottin’ surely ranks pretty low on the scale of worthwhile careers for a grown-up. Indeed, my first editor, Bernard Hayman, once told us we should be paying him to write for his magazine.

The coverage of yacht racing was undoubtedly once a grander, shall we say more noble, occupation, when kings, princes, potentates (and grocers) owned overcanvassed sloops, cutters and and the .

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