Plain – or Plane – Sailing?

Last month there was an article in The Times titled Turning a boat into artwork isn't plain sailing. This prompted a curt letter to the editor from a retired merchant naval captain who said that the term was plane sailing not plain sailing. Plane sailing, he explained was 'a simple method of sailing short distances,…

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