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    May 11, 2023 4 minutes

    Ed Kane

    Yacht: Bolero

    Length: 22.4m

    Year: 1949

    Location: the Bahamas

    I have always had a tendency to sail to places where I did not belong. This would include transiting off the coast of France in the Mediterranean when the French Navy wanted to test an Exocet missile. I was at the helm when a French military aircraft flew several feet above the mast rocking its wings, and called on channel 16 to divert us 80 kilometres away. Sailing to Cuba was high on my list and another sailing boat I owned managed to slip in and out of Marina Hemingway near Havana with me aboard during a rather brief interlude of otherwise nasty relations. Ducking into a harbour in Labrador after

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