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SKIP NOVAK

The other day I was walking along The Strand and on into Fleet Street in London for no other reason than to find the expensive clinic that was dishing out that new and expensive vaccination for shingles – recommended by my GP given my age and stress levels (anxiety brought on from owning two boats continually trying to sink themselves).

The landscape seemed vaguely familiar, but when passing the Royal Courts of Justice (Simon LeBon and co) in their lawsuit against the fabricator of that famous aluminium keel that fell off in the 1985 Fastnet Race.

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