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Published May 17, 2015 at 1333 × 874 in Awa Manu

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Shane Bennett on September 4, 2016 at 2:04 pm said:

I bought this boat from Neil back in the late 80s early 90s and spent about 70g on her. She went up to the bay of inlands were she sunk .don’t known much more about her

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