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(From Lloyds List)
Byline: Michael Grey
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SOME early season rest and recreation has seen me absent from this newspaper if not this column in a deserted part of the Cornish peninsula.
It was, however, impossible to get away from shipping entirely, as the port of Fowey was only a couple of miles away, with a brisk procession of china clay vessels in and out of the Imerys berths.
I tried hard not to notice, but you don't break the habits of a lifetime. And one evening the mist to seaward off Pencarrow head parted as if by magic to reveal a great sailing ship, every sail set, ghosting up channel.
I had to pinch ...