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THE HIDDEN JOY OF Bareboating

“There are lies, damned lies and statistics,” says a quote attributed to Mark Twain, who knew a lot about the first two. I mention this because I came across an interesting statistic about Passagemaker readers: one out of three of you are planning a charter soon.

That’s an impressive number, although, in my own case, I’m always planning a bareboat charter. At one point, my wife wanted a tennis bracelet engraved BTDT, meaning Been There, Done That. I, on the

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