It’s hardly news to say that boat insurance premiums are going up again this year – don’t they always? Taking the temperature with a few quick online quotes, however, shows that prices in some parts o

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Mike Reynolds and his wife Nicki sailed over 5,000 miles to the Azores, Canaries and across the Atlantic to the Caribbean while repairing three separate leaks

For very little money Bob Shillito saves the 1953 Yachting Monthly three-tonner, Sparrow , from being scrapped and gets her sea-ready

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