Sailing Today

Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

‘By choosing to learn to sail we cultivate an understanding of the constantly fluctuating conditions’

In a world where technology surrounds us, where ‘Siri’ leads us to the nearest café, ‘Alexa’ puts on our favourite music and a series of electronic beeps enables us to reverse park without denting the rear bumper against a wall, have we grown far too accustomed to surrendering some aspects of our seamanship to the anchor alarm, the autopilot, or the depth sounder?

Imagine relinquishing the

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