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    Yard News

    May 14, 2021 4 minutes
    Edited by Steffan Meyric Hughes:

    +44 (0)207 349 3758 Yard News Email: steffan@classicboat.co.uk

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    Woodbridge boatyard launches IOD Falcon

    It’s good to be reminded that a wooden yacht, well cared for, can outlast her owners and sail on through several generations That sense of continuity is all the more marked when a boat stays in the same family. Sir Michael Harrison bought International One Design in 1984 and kept her on the river Orwell in Suffolk where he raced her and also used her as the family cruising yacht. Built in 1956, had no engine “but we never missed picking up a mooring under sail,” former crewmember Bertie remembers.

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