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Free to a good home: Yachting World Wild Duck
My 19ft Alan Buchanan-designed wooden Bermudan sloop needs a new owner.
She’s a retirement project in need of fresh impetus lying ashore on a road trailer up on blocks in a garden in Warsash on the Hamble River.
She comes with sails, a 7hp Vire inboard and a tender if required.
e-mail rubble29@icloud.com
Nautical ‘room’-inations
How many rooms are there in your house, in your boat? What is a room? Why do we say, ‘make room’ but not ‘make a room’?
Well, our ancestors knew a thing or two about wooden ships. Unable to always rely on a favourable wind, they did what
