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We received several letters about our feature ‘Cruise the world, without a boat’ in the October 2020 issue. Here are just a couple:

Making yourself useful

I have made passages on 10 different boats and sailed with over 36 crew. Every experience has been different.

Typically on upwind deliveries, racers want big, burly crew members motivated to win. On the return trip they welcome

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