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The story from mum and dad’s perspective

Timothy’s father Nick says: “Looking back, I think it’s more worrying now than it was at the time, thinking about the enormity of the passages he was undertaking. Seventeen hours in thick fog is not something anyone would want to do.

“He certainly had nothing like as much sailing with his boat as he was hoping to have before setting off.

“He and I sailed the boat together from

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