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Earlier in the year, we made a list of the things that make our 1998 ’van a little harder to live with than it needs to be. Many have been sorted already – the plumbing is more reliable and there have

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

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