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    Down With His Ship

    Aug 10, 2021 3 minutes
    BY CHARLES J. DOANE

    hanks to my long connection with this magazine I’ve had many opportunities to sail with some exceptional people. One of my more memorable outings came 18 years ago, when I was sent down to Colombia to sail in La Ruta de Morgan, a local event that saw a modest fleet of boats racing some 400 miles from Cartagena out to the western Caribbean islands of San Andrés and Providencia.—was a warm, very friendly French expatriate named Eric Thiriez.

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