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Serious blue water cruising has very little to do with logic. A rational human being would look at the pros and cons and stay at home. Yet adventure cruising is about far more than common sense, as anyone with the vaguest yearning for liberty understands. It does, however, mean that it is very easy to confound such as an adventurer. I discovered this when I posed the question to Jimmy Cornell as to why, at the age of 80, he was sinking hundreds of thousands of pounds into purpose building a catamaran with pioneering electric propulsion and setting sail around the world in the wake of Ferdinand Magellan.

Anyone who has met Jimmy will know he

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