the second yacht
June 1st 2005 The next chapter in my yachting saga took a slightly different turn. Looking for a move up from chief chamois technician I took a job as second mate on a 50 metre motor yacht which at the time was in the last stages of construction in a shipyard in Istanbul. It was to turn into quite an education in how not to build boats.
Our first little disaster occurred when a poorly tightened hose clam
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