Sam Llewellyn writes nautical thrillers, edits The Marine Quarterly, and is perpetually patching up a 30ft ketch: samllewellyn.com
Once upon a time the coastline of Britain was a wild affair. There were cliffs, beaches and marshes, interspersed here and there with ports large and small. Some of these ports had facilities for yachts, which mostly took the form of stone quays and mooring buoys in sheltered bays. Then along came a civil engineering company skilled in hammering
