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    Beyond the sea

    Dec 02, 2021 3 minutes

    Lizzie, your new home is stunning. Why did you decide to self-build?

    Tristan’s family has been building boats in the area for many generations and he had a boatyard about 25 minutes from where we were living. A large part of the job is to launch and recover boats while working with the tide at all times of the day and these responsibilities meant that it wasn’t very convenient for us living where we were.

    The boatyard is

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