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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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A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

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Route du Rhum: Gekenterter Joyon gerettet, Foil-Problem bei “Gitana 18”

11.03

Bei der 13. Route du Rhum hält die Bruchserie an. Nach der Kenterung und Rettung von Francis Joyon und weiteren K.o.-Schlägen hat "Gitana 18" Foil-Probleme.

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