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  • Yachting Monthly

    THE CONFESSIONAL

    Jul 18, 2019 2 minutes

    When it’s time to let go

    Jonathan Baynton

    he scene: a family flotilla holiday with my two daughters and my wife in the Ionian. The brief from the flotilla skipper in order to anchor fore and aft for the beach barbecue was to drop the kedge anchor three boat lengths from the beach, nose in until the bow just touched, drop

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