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    Isaac Adam-Azikri

    Isaac Adam-Azikri became a professional skipper in 1977, then retrained as a commercial diver and worked in the North Sea for 20 years. In 2013, he completed a 7-year circumnavigation of the world with his family aboard Rhythm, a Bill Dixon-designed 12-meter steel cutter.

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    Fabricating a Steering Quadrant

    Where cast aluminum failed, mild steel became the material of choice Issue 127: July/Aug 2019 The cast-aluminum steering quadrant on Rhythm had been in use for approximately 15 years. When I removed a...

    Isaac Adam-Azikri
    July 1, 2019
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