Practical Boat Owner

First world problems

eally annoyingly, I’ve spent eight hours trying to persuade the authorities in the Seychelles to let me in. I’ve been in contact with the captain of a yacht who needs help to sail the 1,000 miles from the Seychelles to Zanzibar. There’s a significant (60th) birthday in two weeks’ time and I’ve been promising myself a

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