Practical Boat Owner

Not going solo

Living with the sea

Marsali Taylor sails an Offshore 8M, Karima S. She’s a dinghy instructor and author of The Shetland Sailing Mysteries starring liveaboard sleuth, Cass Lynch.

I was in a grumpy mood. I had a headache, and though I was disappointed that it was too windy to go out and test my spinnaker snuffer, as I’d planned, I quite fancied a restful, therapeutic sail, just me and my boat, white

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