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Floating on her waterline

There comes a time in any wooden boat owner’s life when – in my case after 26 years – you just want to throw some money at a boatbuilder and let them get on with it.

From what I have read in pre-war magazines, an owner would simply entrust his yacht to the yard with instructions, some detailed, some taken for granted, as to what should be done by the time

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