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Ed Kane

Yacht: Bolara

Length: 74'

Year: 1949

Location: the Bahamas

Tell us about some of your memorable yachting adventures

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 flaw several feet above the meat rooking its wings, and called on channel 16 to divert us 50 miles away. Sailing to Cube was high on my list and another sailing boat I owned managed to slip in and out of Marina Herningway near Havana

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