Sailing Today

Paul Heiney

Wonderful things aren’t they? Weather apps. The ones you carry on your phone inviting a stab of your finger for all the world’s weather to flash up on the screen. A minor miracle, isn’t it?

But for how much longer? Today’s miracle soon becomes tomorrow’s antiquity and it can happen very quickly in ways we can’t imagine. If we could forsee them, of course, we’d be living a Bill Gates lifestyle but as that seems unlikely you and I will just have to

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