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High life

An elegy on yachting

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

Patmos

A very long time ago I wrote in these here pages that spending a summer on the Riviera or the Greek isles without a boat was as useless as a eunuch in a cathouse. That was then and this, alas, is now. The French and Greek seas are the same, if a little bit more crowded, but the people with boats are very, very different.

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