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Yacht racing: how to lose to win

t is only natural, once the average sea plodder has mastered belaying the obliquity of the elliptic (explained last month) and discovered that pulling ropes and wot not has some effect, that he, or possibly she, will have acquired delusions of adequacy, and will aspire to pitting himself or possibly herself against his or possibly her peers, or possibly piers. This is known as racing, and can be done entirely without stress… unless you are the

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