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    Chasing a leak where the sea gets in

    Nov 11, 2021 2 minutes
    DICK DURHAM

    I’m fixing a hull where the sea gets in, to paraphrase a former singing Beatle, but unlike a roof, it’s more than a distraction.

    At the end of last season, I stripped the spare sails out of , my 25ft gaff cutter. Then the bunk cushions. Then the floorboards. And then with my trusty personal shipwright, Roger Cooper, at the helm, set out from her

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