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12:06 AM Fri 17 Sep 2010 GMT
'He knocked on the rail at the yacht club' .
Jack and Jude Binder, sailing on their yacht Banyandah, tell their yarns about circumnavigating Australia in their book 'Two's a Crew'. This is one of 'Cap'n Jack's' tales: When guests of the local Sailing Club, I awoke feeling a bit old this particular morning. Too much booze or one too many stories the night before had me feeling every one of my sixty-four years and I was crawling rather lethargically round the cabin when I heard a rap on our railing. Coming up my eyes clasped onto a man my age inspecting my boat. 'Bonny wee sailing ship you have ...


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by Captain Jack Binder




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