Yachts & Yachting magazine

Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

‘The worst passages are the ones where the forecast led us to believe we’d have enough wind’

Passage-making can be tough. The cruising lifestyle involves an awful lot more dawdling at anchor in enjoyable spots than it does hardcore sail manoeuvres. It’s easy to slip into a rhythm of only moving somewhere when you really have to and choosing to eat up as many miles as possible when you’re underway.

Once we had more than one child onboard we tended to opt for

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