Winter musings
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.
Our Shetland winters are generally milder than you’d expect, given that 60° north is the same latitude as St Petersburg. We get light frosts, but below -5° is unusual, and we don’t get a lot of snow: a covering at Christmas, several inches and schools
