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Jill Harris: Clawmarks Down The Jetty


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Imagine leaving your perfectly good job, stepping onto a 34-foot home-made steel sloop, with zero sailing experience, and heading out into open ocean to circumnavigate the globe with $50 dollars in your pocket and a bottle of apple cider. Jill Harris lives these days on a farm in Northland; she has written a memoir about what happened in her earlier life called Clawmarks Down The Jetty: A Nearly But Not Quite Circumnavigation. Jill has a strong background in New Zealand media; she's worked at Radio Nelson, Radio Fifeshire and Newstalk ZB. She joins Jim to recall life on the boat Bloomers.
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