Fitting-out time is here again. Because I winter up in the Baltic where the sea still sometimes freezes, my season doesn’t really start until May. It was different when I berthed my 22ft wooden sloop

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In the light of the Royal Navy’s decision to ban sailors from drinking alcohol for at least two days a week, Henry Jeffreys considers the role of hard liquor in the lives of those who serve on the seas