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Lockdown reflections 2021

I am writing this article sitting on my little 8.5m yacht in Auckland, where I have been for the last five weeks... I travelled up from the South Island to attend Fieldays at Mystery Creek and to set-up a dealership network for Maxtrax and Bushman fridges, for which I am the exclusive New Zealand importer.

I guess that we all knew that Covid was going to “escape” at some stage, but I was pretty surprised with how quickly it happened, and found myself stuck in Auckland without even the possibility to take the boat out for a sail.

It’s fair to say that I’ve had plenty of time

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