A blessing in disguise

Before embarking on a long offshore passage John Jacobson wisely went for a test sail in strong conditions close to home… and was left picking up the pieces

I am originally from the north-east of England but spent 13 years working for the Bermuda government and living on the island. I had owned a 17ft sailing boat for a few years in the highlands of Scotland before we moved, but once my wife and I had settled into our new lives on Bermuda my thoughts soon turned to getting a boat that I could sail around and about the islands, weekending, occasional day trips out into the Atlantic, and perhaps one day even further afield. So I bought Garouda, a 1968 31ft Van de Stadt (Tyler Harmony in UK) from a French doctor who had been heading for an extended single-handed cruise to the Pacific and Indonesia, but had changed his mind and was returning to France. Garouda…

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Practical Boat Owner (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2020

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