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Shoulder season sailing

t’s easy to think of Mediterranean sailing as eternally blue skies and warm water brushed with cooling zephyrs. Sure, there are stronger winds too – the Mistral, Tramontana, Bora, and Meltemi – but under a baking sky, they lose some of their true malevolence in the imagination and are rarely accompanied by rain. The days are long, and the weather

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