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    Sep 30, 2021 5 minutes

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    We enjoyed Hedley Ritchie’s article on replacing worn rudder bushes in the September 2021 edition, especially as the boat featured in the article used to be our boat. We owned Concerto from 2011 until 2015 and enjoyed her immensely. We mainly sailed her around the Solent area but we did manage a wonderful West Country cruise one glorious summer.

    It was great to see Concerto looking so good and obviously benefitting from much care and attention. We very much hope Hedley is enjoying her as much as we did. If he’s still finding occasional short brown hairs in the bilge or elsewhere, I apologise; they’re from our sailing companion, Rosie, a chocolate Lab!

    Tim Wills, via email

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