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Remembering Golden Hinde

hat a thrill it was to open June’s CB at page 54 and find myself staring at a deeply atmospheric photo of a vessel which had effectively been my home for a while in the mid ‘80s. I had the great good fortune to live and work aboard SV Golden Hinde II, as we always called her, joining up in

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