Yachting Monthly

Puffin country

Seabirds are remarkably adaptable creatures and we seem useless by comparison when it comes to versatility. I need a boat and a mountain of paraphernalia to get me to Iceland but a seabird will think of it as a jaunt, feeding themselves on the way without any need of fridges or gas, and certainly having no use for satellite navigation to find a landing place. And they wouldn’t be fretting about the weather either.

We are pretty hopeless ocean adventurers compared to seabirds, which makes for a timely reminder that out on the oceans we are mere beginners and it

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