Practical Boat Owner

Bairns are back!

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.

This summer’s first session of getting the bairns back again, also known as Junior Sailing, produced a sea of small people in wetsuits.

Twenty-eight in total! Did we have enough boats and instructors…? Well, yes; two former trainees had returned

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