Practical Boat Owner

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Mad about the boat

Dave Selby is the proud owner of a 5.48m (18ft) Sailfish, which he keeps on a swinging mooring on the picturesque Blackwater estuary in Essex

What with the fiercest winds on record and my Sailfish 18 lying in an exposed mud berth 200 yards from my house I set off post haste and with alacrity in the opposite direction. This is what’s known as a displacement activity.

Engineers will tell

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