Yachting Monthly

Life is simpler at sea

go to sea’ said the singlehander, ‘because it’s so much simpler out there.’ He was an old friend, many oceans under his belt. Listening to his reminiscences about storms and narrow shaves in his past, you might think that a bewildering statement. Simpler out there? Sailing-boats are complicated, all the way from leaky bilges to fraying halyards,

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