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    Sep 03, 2020 4 minutes

    Working aloft in shorts?

    I read the article ‘Working aloft’ (PBO September 2020) and thought only one thing: three pictures with mast climbers wearing shorts! I have been up a few masts over the years and rue the one time I went aloft in shorts. A good pair of jeans will protect the legs from the grazes, cuts and bruises that come from mast work with bare legs.

    Philip Linsell, via email

    Get a second opinion…

    I write from Franklin in Tasmania to share a tale of woeful mechanical inadequacy.

    I needed to shift marinas after winter and fired up the 40hp Nanni in my Martzcraft 35, . I’d run the engine for approx two hours a week through winter at different revs to

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