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which was never found. She was built by Ratsey of Cowes in 1864, of honest teak, in days when loving care was taken in the building of a boat, and scamping was not so rife as now. Her every plank had been carefully selected, and had been lying seasoning for years in the builder's loft, ere used. When I bought her she was as sound throughout as when she first came off the stocks; in not a single spot was decay visible.
