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Idle days afloat on the beautiful Mediterranean Sea

About the Author
Paul Norkett is a retired academic living and sailing in Spain. He started sailing in his teens and within a few years was racing, firstly with a GP14 then a Fireball. In his twenties he crewed on racing yachts offshore and then bought his first yacht, an Achilles 24 that he raced with little success. He completed his Yachtmaster Exams over 30 years ago long before GPS became widely available when the sextant used to be part of navigation training and you were tested in morse code and signal flags. Gradually he bought larger yachts ending up with a 40ft steel ketch. With this yacht there was far too much work and not enough sailing so he returned to small boats having a Laser for inshore and an Anderson 22 for single-handed sailing offshore. He took the Anderson to Spain and is now cruising in the Mediterranean. Paul is a very experienced sailor having made many single-handed passages and a yacht delivery to the Greek Islands.