I'm beginning to think that somebody, not of the deck department, thought it would be a spiffing wheeze to burn off the many coats of meticulously applied marine varnish with a gas axe. Much faster than hand applied abrasive materials I will admit, but speed is not always a virtue.
As the actress said to the telegraph boy.
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"You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time towards the open sea. It goes. That's all." Bernard Moitessier.
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