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Brendan O’Shanassy

This is a book that made me uncomfortable from the get go and I’m sure that this is down to my own personal prejudice. I worked on a superyacht only once and spent a weird day auditing cutlery before being told that I lacked an STCW certificate and was therefore unable to work. This always left me with a jaundiced view of the industry, further coloured by large superyachts

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