Flotsam and jetsam
Sam Llewellyn writes nautical thrillers, edits The Marine Quarterly, and is perpetually patching up a 30ft ketch: samllewellyn.com
The mooring pennant splashes into the kyle, the mainsail draws and the bristle of masts in the yard slides astern: not many of them now, as most boats are in the water. The ones that will launch this year, that is. Some, the dreams, will not.
There was the enormous object, 60ft long, 8ft beam, carvel
