The MARINE Quarterly

extract from an email from an intrepid contributor to the editor of the MQ:

‘I arrived in Nova Scotia a couple of days ago, 24 days from Martinique, with a fresh coat of paint on everything and new rigging and sails. It seems a bit excessive to make a 4500 mile round trip in order to get a suitable temperature to apply paint, but if I had stayed in Newfoundland all I would have done over the winter was drink screech with the b’yes. You cannot paint a steel boat in winter in Newfoundland, drunk or sober.’

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Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller has just died at the age of 98. He was reckoned to be the richest man in Denmark, largely thanks to his shipping interests, which included a major holding in the eponymous line. He was also a keen swimmer and a convinced yachtsman, and owned eight boats, all called Klem.  The last of these was Klem VIII, a Swan RS82 that he gave himself for his 96th birthday.