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BOAT LIFE

ucked behind Falmouth’s National Maritime Museum in a hidden marina, flanked by pretty town houses, Holly Latham is brewing coffee on the shiny deck of her boat, Veracity, a 32ft replica of a traditional Mousehole lugger. The sun is burning through the morning sea mist and, while the bustle of the Cornish town is a stone’s throw away, the only sound is the occasional seagull, wheeling overhead. ‘There are two portholes behind my bunk so I look straight out onto the water when I wake up,’ says Holly, who has been living on Veracity with her whippet,

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