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picture window overlooking the whole Harbour entrance and
was entrancing.
Apart from sailing every day as the tides permitted, we did
find time to do normal touristy things too. A day was spent
exploring Plymouth and another visiting Brixham and
Buckfastleigh Abbey.
Too soon the four days were over and we began our long
journey back to the eastern side of England to collect our
daughter from grandparents and work again for us both.
Salcombe was the place where we found out that
Bamboozle could not be “capsized”; the frequent gusts of wind
passing down the valleys at each side of the harbour pushed
our mast right down to the sea several times but the unique
design of our stout craft prevented the water getting inside.
Rome would have been so…different!

CHAPTER 16
MORE BOATS

All our lives, Ruth and I had been encouraged to save
money “for a rainy day”. At school there had been the Trustee
Savings Bank accounts which each child was taught to cherish.
Then, towards the end of 1967, Prime Minister Harold
Wilson devalued the £ and overnight everyone in the whole
country with any savings lost a large proportion of their hard
earned capital.
The fact was mind numbing and I suppose the precursor to
inflation which did not exist at this time.

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