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Thanks Robert - really appreciate your keeping in touch and giving me some feedback. Out in the Mediterranean sounds great - but two days after I wrote this, the fuel pump failed and we were grounded in a marina off Sardinia for two weeks while it was sent off to be repaired - end of my sailing as I had to return home before it was fixed. Sardinia is a great place to be grounded but I missed the sailing. At least this couldn't have happened on the Charles W Morgan!