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FRED PARKER RESTORED

The magnificent steel and aluminium Fred Parker motor yacht Caramba, built in 1962, has had a 15-month refit and is now back at home in the Med

DINGHY REBUILD

It’s not just Fife yachts and the like that was so loved by her family, that she got the same treatment, from Ashley Butler.

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