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Barry Pickthall joined Tapio Lehtinen on Galiana’s delivery trip from the Hamble to Finland

Pure nostalgia: the chance to sail on a 50-year-old Swan 55 with a group of young expectant faces and a fatherly owner at the start of a huge adventure, took me straight back to the start of the 1973 Whitbread Round

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