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Cruising the Baie de Seine: ‘Arrival in Dives marina is hard-earned thanks to the sandbanks, but it’s well worth it’

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Author of the new Shell Channel Pilot, Rachael Sprot, highlights one of the most underrated cruising grounds in the English Channel Port-en-Bessin: turn hard to starboard through the lock for the…

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