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Q Jenny and Ted are cruising with their two teenage children on board their 10m yacht Oyster Catcher. Forecasters have been warning of wet and windy weather for the next few days. The forecast is for galeforce winds and rain arriving in the evening a
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Auxiliary engines, as they were called in the old days, were hot, noisy, smelly lumps of metal that weren’t usually powerful enough to motor into wind or tide. My first yacht, which I bought in 1979, had a single-cylinder Stuart Turner petrol engine.

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