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    LETTERS

    Aug 13, 2020 5 minutes

    ARC 2020 thoughts

    November 2012 saw me fall in love all over again. A lifelong dinghy sailor and racer, I knew that the day would come when I needed some lead in a keel to help me to go exploring, hang off the anchor in beautiful bays, see the coastlines of countries and meet the locals.

    A review of the RM 1260 ocean-going cruiser, ‘lighter than fibreglass, stronger than steel and wood,’ prompted a visit to a yard in La Rochelle, and an order was placed. Fast-forward to September 2016 and I had taken delivery of Grace, the updated RM 1270 model. Since then I have been single- and double-handed cruising around the south coast and double-handed racing in Rolex Fastnet 2017.

    My retirement was planned for January 2020 and the ARC was to follow. Well, 2020 became the year of what

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