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They come over like low- flying grouse , sometimes only seven or eight feet above ground level . Its pure snap - shooting , so if you can get a couple well out in front , swing round and get one behind , you're doing jolly well .
They come over like low- flying grouse , sometimes only seven or eight feet above ground level . Its pure snap - shooting , so if you can get a couple well out in front , swing round and get one behind , you're doing jolly well .
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I could stir the soup ' with the stick and kick the rudder - bar with my feet frantically from side to side with absolutely no feel of reaction and no apparent effect . The only way to escape from this embarrassing situation , other ...
I could stir the soup ' with the stick and kick the rudder - bar with my feet frantically from side to side with absolutely no feel of reaction and no apparent effect . The only way to escape from this embarrassing situation , other ...
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... in our gaff - rigged ketch Northern Light . She was built in Norway in 1931 of three - inch Burma teak on massive oak frames . Length overall forty - eight feet , beam fifteen and a half feet , draught almost nine feet , auxiliary ...
... in our gaff - rigged ketch Northern Light . She was built in Norway in 1931 of three - inch Burma teak on massive oak frames . Length overall forty - eight feet , beam fifteen and a half feet , draught almost nine feet , auxiliary ...
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