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Old Gaffers unite to celebrate 60th Jubilee

Over 100 classic yachts and working boats with 320 skippers, crews, family and friends arrived on the River Orwell on 2 August for a four-day Jubilee celebration to welcome the return of 15 OGA60 Round Britain Cruise boats and to celebrate 60 years of the Association for Gaff Rig Sailing (OGA).

‘It was fitting that the Round Britain Cruise should end up in the Jubilee Party on the East Coast. After visiting eight Party Ports and many other harbours and anchorages all around the coast, we completed our voyage in the area where the OGA was founded 60 years ago,’ said Mike Beckett, OGA

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