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The greatest gift?

hat is the greatest gift a father can give to his son? Courage? Intellect? Honesty? In my case it was the art of sailing, which arguably combines all three of those ancient virtues. A century has now passed since my father, Richard Stephens Durham’s birth. On his death-bed the man who taught me to hand, reef and steer struggled against the cancer that was killing him, to feebly draw the

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