Search parties patrol Poole Quay. Dressed in full foul weather gear.
Where the towering TS Royalist and Pip Hare's foil-shorn IMOCA once lay, there is a space. Empty, save for a white fishing catamaran. The two crowd pleasing sailing craft missing.
AIS (Automatic Identification System) tracking places Royalist in Salcombe. But yields no results for Pip's boat. Speculation fills the information vacuum: Relocation to a cheaper berth? Refitting, elsewhere, to enter the Route du Rhum race? An offer, too good to be refused, accepted?
Time will tell. Meanwhile, RNLI teams genially scour the pavement cafes. Collection buckets in hand.
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