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Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

‘Fortunately, this is the kind of blunder you only make once’

There is a single mistake that I repeatedly make in our life at sea without ever really learning my lesson well enough. Time after time I always seem to underestimate the influence and effect of the land.

The land coaxes the wind into doing strange and unexpected things, seemingly demanding to assert its dominance over the wind’s authority. It also plays with sea, messing up the direction of the swell

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