Author: Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

I have never been a “neat freak,” nor was I very messy in my landlubber life. However, living on board a boat does teach you the advantages to being that bit tidier.

We’re back in the U.K., enjoying the reunions with family and friends that our brief sojourns from our “proper” life at sea aboard our Crossbow 42, Adamastor, allow us.

I have a Dutch sailing friend who I’ve overheard making phone calls in her native tongue to her family back home.

Sailors, true sailors, know how to grab their moments.

In our seven years of cruising, we have always been moving forward.

They say that it takes a village to raise a child. Likewise, it takes a fleet to raise a sailor.