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Richard Ayres makes his first Mayday call when his yacht is dismasted and prop fouled close to the Manacle rocks

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John Willis explains the consequences of cresting a bigger-than-expected wave while helming his 25ft motorboat

Like all good things that happen to us, it was an accident I started writing pilots for the Mediterranean. It all began when I was skippering a flotilla around the Saronic and eastern Peloponnese in G