Sailing Today

Paul Heiney

‘One of our finest exports has been our sense of history and the only vessel to capture that is a Tall ship’

We are going to have a National Ship, or at least it’s on the cards if not yet actually on the stocks. It is to be an emblem of Great Britain, proudly flying our flag around the world, carrying a bulk cargo of well fed business people hell bent on getting that elusive overseas contract for bed springs that will make

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