Sam Llewellyn writes nautical thrillers, edits The Marine Quarterly, and is perpetually patching up a 30ft ketch: samllewellyn.com
The weather has cheered up slightly, and the sheets are coming off the boats in the yard, and their owners, lightly coated in spilt varnish, have begun to talk to each other.
The conversation has strayed from its beginning – where will you be going this year and for how long, shocking thing the cost of diesel, bloody trawlers – to
