Cruising blow away those winter blues

Simon Ellis completes the final leg of his three-month sabbatical cruise along the South Coast of England

I’ve had Constance – an American Mason 44 – for 13 years. We’re getting to know each other bit by bit and I’d like to report that she’s everything a yacht should be. Excellent though she is, as the sa

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