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ne of the blessings of being a writer for a boating magazine like this is that you write mainly about heroes – heroes at the helm,, a 28ft ketch he had asked Bert Woollacott to design, in a Newmarket yard. He and Tig then proceeded to sail west-wise right around the world, the first Kiwis to circumnavigate.

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