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When Katie met Murdoch

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The youngest sailor ever to circumnavigate Great Britain single-handed and an octogenarian undertaking a similar feat in the opposite direction were due to complete their journeys on the same weekend at opposite ends of the country.

Murdoch McGregor, aged 82, met up with 14-year-old Katie McCabe and her family in Scotland on 30 July, saying it was “a privilege” and a “totally special day.”

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