JK Rowling’s expensive mistake

Harry Potter author JK Rowling fell for the dream of owning a yacht hook, line and sinker.

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JK Rowling and Amphitrite: a costly love affair

"To buy a yacht, wherever in the world you live, is to enter a whole other league of delusion. Ocean-going, you might say. It is to attach a hose to your bank account and leave the tap running." So says Matthew Bell in The Daily Telegraph. He's right. I know this to my cost, having owned a yacht even if it was rather a battered motor yacht for seven years before coming to my senses and selling it.

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