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A challenge for my son

I had recently retired, wanted an adventure and to develop my sailing experience. I had skippered yachts many times in the UK, sailed to France and the Channel Islands, chartered in the Mediterranean and helped deliver a yacht from Mallorca to Naples.

After being inspired by reading about what Britain’s coast had to offer, it was clear that a circumnavigation by yacht was what I had to do. Was my wife, Diane, up for it too? Not a chance. I thought it might have to be a solo exercise, but then my sailing friend, Roger,

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