Yachting Monthly

Voyages of a simple sailor are over

Suddenly the sea seems a bigger place. That’s because the greatest exponent of shrink-wrapping it for the rest of us, between the covers of his books, has retired from the ocean. Well, almost.

‘I’d never say never, but firstly I feel too much of an anachronism these days,’ explains Roger D. Taylor, talking to me from his lonely croft in the Scottish Highlands.

‘Secondly I look at the charts and

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