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Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

‘Local sailors had a lot to teach us tourists about the conditions specific to the area’

When we arrived in Singapore in 2020 we were so pleased to have a mooring surrounded by other monohulls, having encountered so few of them during our years sailing in Indonesia. Here, at Changi, was a community of like-minded boat people. We all spoke a common language, knew a certain shorthand way of referring to things and shared a loved of the sea.

But, we were

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