Paul Gelder reports on his blue-water baptism with Robin Knox-Johnston.

Twenty years ago, in 1990, YM editor Paul Gelder had a blue-water baptism – sailing from the Azores to Plymouth aboard the famous 32ft round-the-world ketch Suhaili, with skipper Robin Knox-Johnston. His report on the adventure, published later that year is reproduced here.

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