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Gavin Atkin

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Posts by gmatkin:

• The hardest voyage - rowing and sailing a Viking ship from Wicklow to Portsmouth on 14 Jul 2008
• Orchid Islanders launch a new canoe on 11 Jul 2008
• Tom Naismith’s Sandpiper wins the Water Craft Boatbuilding Awards 2008 on 10 Jul 2008

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• what I'm reading

  I've managed to find a copy of Hervey Benham's classic Last Stronghold of Sail, and it's great stuff. Benham writes very well and his subjects, the old Essex sailing smacks and barges and the men who worked them, are compelling.
  
  
  
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