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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: segui qui la diretta della partenza (dalle 12:30 di domenica 1 novembre)

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Saint Malò- Guarda qui la partenza della Route du Rhum Destination Guadeloupe, prevista alle 13:02 di domenica 1 novembre. Diretta streaming dalle 12:30 CET.

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