Sailing Today

Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

The highlights of good day-sailing are all about efficient trim and nifty manoeuvres; passage-making is focussed on covering mileage and reaching a new destination. Sailing long-term and globally has many highpoints but by far the most wonderous for us is the opportunity to come up close with animals that you normally only see on an Attenborough programme on the BBC. From orangutans to whale sharks, lemurs to elephants, birds of paradise and Komodo dragons, there are a lot of

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