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Chapter 4: "First the Sun Must Rise Before it Sets" by John Panting

For those of you and there must be many will know the trap of sailing back from Cherbourg to the sight of St Catherine’s lighthouse and you take a deep breath and think to yourself, “Nearly there.” Oh no you're not!!

Well that’s what building your own dinghy is like. I allowed myself to think the unthinkable yet I am still epoxying bits onto her curvaceous form.

True I have successfully collected the mast and boom. The sails have arrived by courier. (I have not even opened their boxes yet). Bits and pieces are arriving between tides from various sources in the way of shroud plates and vernier adjusters etc etc.







By John S Panting, Alias "JP"


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