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    YOUR CRUISING COMMUNITY

    Feb 27, 2020 3 minutes

    Send your sailing gossip, diary dates, cruising news and club or owners’ association updates to Katy Stickland katy.stickland@ti-media.com

    Remembering small boat sailor Jim Mottram

    Small boat cruiser and shipwright Jim Mottram, who regularly wrote for Yachting Monthly about his sailing exploits aboard his Elizabethan 23, Reservation, has died aged 85.

    Born in Cambridge, Jim’s passion for boats and the sea was ignited by the books of Arthur Ransome. He spent 13 years in the Merchant Navy, during which time he taught himself to sail an engineless 30ft Broads yacht. He then took up boatbulding on the

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