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I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

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Coastal Classic gets off to a gentle start

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Two and a half hours into the race, the leading monohull was the Davidson 58 Another Duchess (Evan Davies), followed by the Bakewell White 50 Wired (Rob Bassett)

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