Yachts & Yachting magazine

Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

‘Most long-term sailors hone their MacGyver skills, learning inventive ways of mending’

he harsh reality of sailing full-time is that things inevitably break. Whether your boat is old or new, whether you’ve recently made all sorts of expensive upgrades or been sailing on a shoestring budget for years – it makes no difference. Boats are just so complex and have such a huge variety of fittings and components that, over the years, one by one and in no particular order, elements will either

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