Wonderful pictures of elegant boats

There is a marvellous set of photos at the pfm pictures web site. The 8 metre world championships is being foughts out in Scotland (I think) by classic yachts. I trust they'll forgive me for reproducing one of these marvellous shots as a way of tempting you to look at more.

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