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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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What 20 Years of Chartering the BVI Really Teaches You

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A charter in the British Virgin Islands lit the spark. Courtesy Mike and Cyndi Crosby The base manager motored out in his dinghy to watch.

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