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That launch day sinking feeling

Dave Selby is the proud owner of a 5.48m (18ft) Sailfish, which he keeps on a swinging mooring on the picturesque Blackwater estuary in Essex

All plastic boat owners, including owners of Sailfish 18s such as myself, are callous, soulless heathens who enjoy nothing more than watching wooden boats sink. As I’m also a wooden boat owner, with soul, depth, character and taste, I find it unamusing, and must point out that the technical terminology for what you Tupperware types call ‘sinking’ is in

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