Sailing Today

Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

‘Today the sky is a bright, saturated azure blue, flecked with fleecy patterns of white shimmering clouds’

iving on a boat bestows upon you an extraordinary relationship with the sky. The sheer expanse of it, greeting you each morning, makes your relationship with its fluctuating moods and rhythms both intimate and extensive. You have to engage with the sky in the same way that you have to engage with the water; after all, it makes up half of your backdrop when living at

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