Helgafolkboot
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About 350 sea miles west of Plymouth I ran into fishing boats operating very close together. Having to tack into a SW wind made it hard to get around both boats. I was tempted to go between but some inner sense stopped me. Talking to a British friend who lives in Germany. He said just as well I had not gone between as they may have had a single net strung between the two fishing boats. First I couldn't understand what he meant by pear fishing but then he explained it was pair fishing. He said in most places he thought it was illegal but maybe not in international waters.