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[rhinorhino]

I don't know what the rate is for a full page colour advert, but I sugget the Brokers (who were named) advertising a second hand Baviara in this month's YM got a real bargin.

Do we really need advertisising dressed up (thinly disguised) as editorial?

Last year there was a rash of boats appearing in the second hand boat test also appearing for sale in the advertising section, but this is much worse...

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[Jeremy_W]

I dunno.Rather than advertising this article reads like "damnation with faint praise".

1) The yacht "has logged eight knots" (which is hull speed for a 32-foot waterline). Am I meant to be impressed?
2) The yacht has "not entirely sacrificed sailing performance". Sacrificing 99.9% of sailing performance would rate as "not entirely".
3) "She's no Contessa 32 but there are plenty of yachts with worse manners (and plenty, implicity, with better.)
4) The owner concedes a tendency to slam in larger seas.
5) The mainsheet traveller neither helps in getting the the best shape out of the main nor is convenient for short-handing.

From the dysfunctional traveller to the linear galley the whole review strikes me as a coded hatchet job.

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[sailorman]

we have a lot of dysfunctional travellers in cambridgeshire

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[Jeremy_W]

Do they carry coded hatchets?

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