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‘Trust me, you don’t want to be chasing your underwear across an anchorage by dinghy’

When we first set out from the UK a lot of the messages from friends back home would ask what boat life was like. I would reply: “Imagine your house and your car, rolled into one and put into an environment that’s constantly trying to attack it. That’s what keeping a boat is like! Things break, salt water corrodes, and time and use wear

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