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Dec 23, 2021
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Creative dog haulage
This summer, suffering from a mild case of tendinitis in both elbows forced me to get creative with lowering Voreas, my 30kg eight-year-old German Shepherd, into the dinghy. Luckily, I had on board a spinnaker pole from a 420 keelboat which I’d salvaged from the marina bin and restored a few years ago, plus a 4:1 block and tackle. What I found most impressive was that Voreas took very quickly to the whole process, even his being suspended several feet over the water.
I adopted Voreas from the Athens
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