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Ship or sail?

NEVILLE HOCKLEY and wife Catherine have been exploring the world on their Cabo Rico Dream Time since 2007

After nine years and having sailed 40,000 relatively quiet miles, apart from the occasional outburst from Mother Nature, we were facing one of our toughest decisions: should we sail or ship our 38ft Cabo Rico, Dream Time, from Thailand to Turkey?

Since leaving New York, my wife, Catherine and I had experienced, for the most part, carefree sailing as we made our way into the Pacific Ocean, through the islands and on to New Zealand and then

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