Practical Boat Owner

Following the wake of history

Dave Selby is the proud owner of a 5.48m (18ft) Sailfish, which he keeps on a swinging mooring on the picturesque Blackwater estuary in Essex

Circumnavigators are a select bunch, and rarer still are those who’ve notched up three, so it’s with particular excitement I await confirmation of my investiture into the Circumnavigators Club. It should be any day now, post allowing, once my appeal has been upheld.

Like pretty much everyone else I have completed a circumnavigation as part of

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