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1,500 Miles Without A Rudder
There is nothing, absolutely nothing more useful on a boat than 3mm line. I stretch it across my chest with one arm out to the side, the other bent at the elbow – and that’s a metre. Then add a bit for luck. Put a bowline in one end and you can do an
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Pip’s Vendée Globe Funding Challenge
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