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‘But as we rowed up this crowded harbour we came in for a perfect storm of rough but quite good-natured chaff from both the men and women… As French was a foreign language to most of the fishermen also we got on fairly well… But I can imagine that yachtsmen with short tempers and an exaggerated idea of their dignity might not have fared so well. If a man has corners to be rubbed off, by all means let him sail to Concarneau.’