Yachting World

SKIP NOVAK

If you’re in the yacht charter business, there’s not much you won’t do to earn a crust. It’s a time to pull your finger out and adapt before the falling tide of marina fees, crew salaries, insurances and various expenses to keep things afloat pull you down to meet Davy Jones.

I love these projects that are so out of the ordinary I immediately buy into them without much logical thought, sorting out the details downstream. was stuck in Cape Town, which was fortuitous for both parties. Last March the RSPB had to abort their project to eradicate mice on Gough Island, a tiny volcanic outlier in the Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic, when COVID locked things down.

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