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More often than not when Pelagic Australis is in Cape Town for her annual refit, we’re docked at right angles to one of the elegant locally-built Southern Wind Shipyard yachts. They share the same pontoon berth for their commissioning. This September it was with the impressive Farr-designed Southern Wind 96.

Southern Wind and know each other well and I like to refer to this mating of opposites as the ‘beauty and

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