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In 1967 Allcard met his future wife, Clare, 31 years his junior. In 1968 they drove from the UK to
Singapore in a Land Rover. In 1969 their daughter Kate was born. After Allcard had completed his circumnavigation, the family bought the 69 ft gaff-rigged ex-Baltic trader
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on 26 July 1955. On a subsequent
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