Yachting World

THE SOLO SKIPPER

Donald Begg had always dreamed of sailing around the world on his Bowman 48 Lydia: “My problem is that my wife doesn’t like long-distance sailing,” he explains.

Nevertheless, Begg completed his circumnavigation with friends from St Lucia to Tahiti, where he laid the boat up and went back home.

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