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It Takes What It Takes

It was October, and Hurricane Maria had just stomped over Les Iles Sainte, devastated Dominica, and was still cooking up 12-foot seas and 25 knots of wind in the Caribbean. Of course, I hadn’t anticipated this when I signed up four months earlier for a delivery charter of a boat that needed to move from Guadeloupe to Grenada. No backing out now.

One-way deliveries can make affordable charters when

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