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Bob Fisher OPINION

“But we are stuck with a monster of a different type altogether – a dish on spoons”

Just what Eddie Warden-Owen and his cohorts at the Royal Ocean Racing Club have done proved an early topic of conversation at the Custodians’ Dinner of the South West Shingles Yacht Club recently. Messing about with a fixed point in the yachting calendar [moving the finish from Plymouth to Cherbourg] did not find favour with any of those present – the Rolex Fastnet Race was generally considered

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