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AOA 60 Regalia
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A1 Keel plates
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A1 New keel plates and clamping bolts in stainless to Mike’s own design. These are more inline with production boats than the originals.
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A1 A1’s keel hoists operate to the same principles as the production Atalantas, but with cables instead of solid stirrups.
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A1 The cockpit. New everything including the bottom of the main bulkhead. The cardboard box hides the new engine.
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A1 A1 forward lower chainplate
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A1 A1 single piece cap and aft lower chainplate
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A1 A1 single piece cap and aft lower chainplate
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A1 2018 07 AOA60 Battleflag 03
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A1 2018 07 A1 Mast Up 04
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A1 2018 07 A1 Mast Up 03
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A1 2018 07 A1 Mast Up 02
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A1 2018 07 A1 Mast Up 01
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A1 2018 06 A1 Sterndeck Mice 03
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A1 A1 trailer side-rail detail
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A1 A1 trailer side-rail detail
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A1 A1 trailer side-rail detail
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A1 A1 trailer side-rail detail
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A1 A1 sitting on Totora’s old trailer which replaces traditional athwartship chocks with fore-and-aft rails on the bilge.
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A1 The lifting beams and jacks are called into play again to lower the boat fully onto the trailer.
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A1 The lifting beams and jacks are called into play again to lower the boat fully onto the trailer.
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A1 The lifting beams and jacks are called into play again to lower the boat fully onto the trailer.
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A1 Gratuitous photo of A1’s aft deck
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A1 Gratuitous photos of A1’s blister and foredeck
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A1 The bow shape is little changed in the production Atalantas.
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A1 A1 clearly showing her tumblehome.
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A1 Sitting proud (and high) on her trailer. Beautiful from every angle.
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A1 Atalanta is all curves, without the vertical sides of the later Atalantas. Look at the curves in that transom.
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A1 A happy owner walks around Atalanta in the sunlight for the first time in 18 months.
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A1 Gone!
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A1 Blocking on the trailer to bring Atlanta out for final positioning.
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A1 Trailer in position ready for lowering of Atalanta
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A1 Aft and forward beams are raised with a person on each jack. the boat sits level and ready for the trailer to be wheeled into position.
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A1 View of the workshop with the plans on the door.
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A1 Jacks and beams in position. One beam aft, one forward. Each with a jack on each end.
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A1 A1 at rest in the shed where she has been for 18 months receiving new keel boxes, skin grafts and hole repairs.
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2018 07 AOA60 Battleflag
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A1 6.1 Fore hatch showing wasted coamings, the largely rotten circular top and the old hinge block
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A1 6.2 Fore hatch showing refurbished coamings, new top and new hinge block to be glued in place
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A1 5.1 Trailer (ex ‘Kotora’) before the “interesting trip” home (photo Ian Pollard)
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A1 5.2 Refurbished trailer
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A1 A1 at rest in the shed where she has been for 18 months receiving new keel boxes, skin grafts and hole repairs.
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A1 3.1 Looking forward from the engine space, through the main transverse bulkhead (note rotten step), into the for’d cabin – the badly rusted and corroded metalwork for the old keel support brackets revealed from where it was hidden in the ‘hollow’ bulkhe
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A1 3.2 Inside for’d cabin – old mild steel keel support bracket
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A1 3.3 Inside the boat on the port side – holes prepared in the transverse bulkhead and the inboard keel bow panel – to accept the three dimensional stainless steel keel support bracket
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3.5 A1’s keel hoists operate to the same principles as the production Atalantas, but with cables instead of solid stirrups.
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A1 3.6 New keel plates and clamping bolts in stainless to Mike’s own design. These are more inline with production boats than the originals.
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A1 3.7 Port side keel bolts and clamps
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A161 Sailing a while ago
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A161 Sailing a while ago 2
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A161 On her trailer some years ago
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A161 On her trailer some years ago 2
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A161 2018 Keel Mechanism
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A161 2018 Galley
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A161 2018 Forepeak and heads
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A161 2018 Cooker
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A161 2018 Chart table
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A161 2018 Chart table and electrics panel
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A161 2018 Cabin and cabin table
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A161 2018 Battery under chart table
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A104 Arosa in Hull Featured
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A104 Arosa drying out at Whitby harbour
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TrailerWoes
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leaving port venere.
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A59 Disaster – rot at the spreaders
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A59 Rot at the spreaders -rotten from the inside, not much left
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A59 Hollow masts shouldn’t be like this
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A59 A mast in pieces
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A59 The mast collapses – at least whilst still on shore
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A162 IMG_0511
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A162 Captain William aged 8
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A162 Rosas
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A162 First night in port Rosas
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A162 rounding ¨Cap De Creus¨
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Port Canet
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A161 A161 prop
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A161 Stern Deck
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A161 Main cabin
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A161 Main cabin
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A161 Starboard from forward
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A161 Keel Mechanism
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A161 Portside from forward
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A161 Portside from aft
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A161 Sails
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A161 Sail
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A161 Foredeck anchor winch
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A161 A161 Engine
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A161 Foredeck and blister detail
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A161 Electrical and Engine panel
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A161 Cockpit
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A161 Cockpit and wheel steering
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A161 Cockpit seat starboard
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A161 Aluminium mast
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A161 Cockpit seat port
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A161 Aluminium mast spreaders
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A161 Aluminium mast halyard winches
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A161 Aluminium mast diamond stays
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A9, Forsale Yammer 1GM10 Engine
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A9, Forsale Heads
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A9, Forsale A9 Ereina For Sale in 2018
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A9, Forsale Galley and stove
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A9, Forsale Cockpit
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A9, Forsale Aft cabin
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A9, Forsale Aft Cabin
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A9, Forsale A9 Ereina For Sale in 2018
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A9, Forsale View from aft
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A9, Forsale View from forward
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A175 A175 on her trailer near the French -Swiss border
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 40 57
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 40 47
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 40 43
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 39 35
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 39 18
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 39 10
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 38 58
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 36 20
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 35 28
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 35 18
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 35 14
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 34 30
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 33 13
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 33 06
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 32 55
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 32 14
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 32 02
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 31 57
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 31 54
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 26 58
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 21 25
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 21 15
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 20 15
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 20 07
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 19 57
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A117 Photo 01-05-2018, 14 19 51
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A138 A138 Sweet Sue in St Peterport May 2018
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A59 Top of the mast broken. Lowering it to scarf in a new piece exposed the extent of the damage
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A117 image5
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A117 Tucked up in the workshop
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A117 Cockpit sidekicks missing some are
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A117 The foredeck shows not uncommon problems. They are often one of the first areas to suffer.
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A117 The deck to blister join is another common area of delamination.
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Aug 26a Portofino 009
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Aug 25e Portofino 030
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Aug 25e Portofino 028
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Aug 25e Portofino 024
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Aug 25e Portofino 022
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Aug 25e Portofino 021
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Aug 25e Portofino 019
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Aug 25e Portofino 016
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Aug 25e Portofino 013
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Aug 25e Portofino 001
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aug 25d approaching portofino 005_modified
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aug 25b cinque terre 026_modified
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aug 25b cinque terre 010_modified
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Big Tupperware
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aug 25d approaching portofino 005_modified
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aug 25b cinque terre 026_modified
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A169 Positive & negative glands
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A169 Voltage Regulator
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A169 solar collage
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A169 IMG_20180321_1943569
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A169 control panel +
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A86 The mast now hanging from the roof to allow the oil drum it was resting on to be used in raising the boat.
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A86 Safely on her barrels.
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A86 Sassi in her dry, snow free home. Every Atalanta should have one!
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A86 A smile and a hammer – The Commodore in his element.
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A86 “Bernard, I hit with my hammer and its come off in my hand ……”
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A86 The precarious bit – high enough to get the trailer out without touching the barrels or beams!
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A86 Safely resting on oil drums to give clear access to the hull.
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A110 A110 Leaving Cherbourg on one of many channel crossings
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A110 A110 Turnstone in Falmouth with Britannia in the background
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A110 A110 aground copy
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A110 Richard worked for Land Rover and was able to put a prototype V8 through its paces!
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T4 IMG_6091-1
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T4 IMG_9183
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T4 IMG_4177
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