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A PINCH OF SALT

rossing the English Channel on a yacht once, we had no AIS and an interminable line of shipping was racing eastwards. It seemed that the gaps between the ships were impossibly tight, and given my reluctance to cross within a mile ahead of any of these behemoths,

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