Cruising Helmsman

No sailor is an island

WHEN publishing a monthly magazine it is an easy statement to make that a month is a long time in publishing.

Last April in this same editorial I was rhapsodising about my trip to Germany to visit the Boot Dusseldorf boat show. I shudder when I think of how close I may have come to being caught

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