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FLOTSAM Mark Chew FLOTSAM Mark Chew

The Death of the WAITERE

No romance, though! Bill was a working man with a work boat. He changed the oil and patched the bottom as necessary, but always in the unsentimental way you would care for a cash cow. He loved the chink of coins in the worn leather bag he wore on one shoulder.

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RESTORATION Mark Chew RESTORATION Mark Chew

ELIZABETH- Part III

She now sits happily on her mooring in Mill Bay, Mangonui in the Far North of New Zealand awaiting her new life. At this stage future plans for ELIZABETH are to race her with the Mangonui Cruising Club on Doubtless Bay and take her south to race against other classics in the Tall Ships Race in the Bay of Islands in January

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