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Summer Boating In Print And Online
Welcome to our holiday issue, packed with boat reviews and summer content. This issue includes a South Island trailer boat odyssey, pre-cruise bio-security precautions, preparing a traditional Christmas ham at sea, and even book suggestions for summe
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Melinda
DEAR EDITOR, When reading about Lance Fink and Tristram boats, I was delighted to see a picture of Melinda, my wife’s boat. We bought her two years ago or so and spent approximately 1,000 hours refurbishing her. She was essentially as sound as the da
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Classic Redemption
It’s been a hard five years getting to this point, though. Sam first laid eyes on Nordic back in 2019, after he lost all his savings buying a 36-foot (11m) steel yacht with his brother, which turned out to be structurally unsound. He kept the mast an