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    LETTER OF THE MONTH

    Oct 21, 2020 3 minutes

    PACIFIC BY TYRE

    on from the MySailing story in the newsletter ‘Sailing across the Pacific by rope’ (originally appeared in CH May issue) about the crew who used some ingenuity to overcome a piece of very bad luck by making improvised warps, you may be interested in reporting on legendary WA sailor Jon Sanders, currently on his 11th circumnavigation and just set a new record as the oldest (81 y.o.) to do a lap, who used a vehicle tyre (yep, you read correctly) as

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