When Saskia Sills says she grew up in Cornwall, one immediately reasons she is so good at her sport because she hit the surf off the county’s iconic beaches from the get-go, taking to the waters like a natural.
But it’s more nuanced than that. Yes, Saskia did spend many a childhood hour surfing and bodyboarding in the waters off north Cornwall in places such as Mother Ivey’s Bay, Constantine and Harlyn. But her introduction to the world of watersports – and all that has followed in terms of a successful career as an elite IQ Foil windsurfer – came at a rather more inland setting.
For it was at Roadford Lake, a huge reservoir close to Launceston, that Saskia and her siblings – older brother Sam and her identical twin sister Imogen – first got
