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A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon

A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon

A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon is an Australian-born English teacher, travel writer and adventurer, author of the international bestseller 'The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow', who lives in the Victorian High Country of Australia.

Aug 26, 2026

10:33
And I understand bridges seem to be something of an obstacle to smooth sailing.
10:39
Yes, and exactly the same as happened right at the very beginning of the original voyage.
10:45
Just when I got the sail up, the mast up, the gaff, the sail hoisted, round a bend, and there's a bridge.
10:53
And a bridge so low that you could barely get the actual hull of the boat up.
11:02
under the bridge, taking down everything, putting it all away, freezing cold weather.
11:08
And that part of the landscape is a particularly ugly landscape.
11:12
And there's just barbed wire and rusting metal pylons and dead cows lying in the field stinking.

8 MINS LATER

19:27
right,

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