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LETTER OF THE MONTH SUPPORTED BY OLD PULTENEY WHISKY

Stuart Turners… and oars!

was delighted to see the Stuart Turner engine in the clinker launch in Saleroom (January 2024). I once owned a 20ft white clinker cabin cruiser powered (named after the cult film Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment) around most of the English and Welsh canal and river system for nearly 30 years!

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