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This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio

Scotland.

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

She's Rachel Stewart.

We build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors.

This week we've been sailing in style. We decided to give a boat called the Provident a check.

Hello and a very good morning to you.

You know, I think in years to come, people will look back and remark on the summer of 2023,

largely for its extreme brevity.

It happened between 3 o'clock and 4.30 on a Tuesday afternoon in March,

and ever since then, it's gone downhill.

I'm Mark Stephen. I'm standing here in the car park, the other side of the fire.

Rachel Stewart.

Yeah, and I can just about see you.

Through the fog.

It's a wet and misty one again.

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