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Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

‘The wind had dropped and the two boats were clearly wanting to do some kind of waltz’

Our boat is a heavy girl. She takes a lot of power to get going and build up her momentum and she hates to go in astern with any wind at all on her beam or her quarter. But, give her a quiet anchorage and a full moon and she suddenly becomes as nifty and adept a mover as someone on Strictly.

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