A fine day out with a visitor

Six hours afloat and a guided tour to vindicate a fictional sailing heroine's navigational skills

- Marsali Taylor

Writing books that involve messing around in boats means I meet so many fine fellow enthusiasts.

I got to know Christian Kogler, an author and filmmaker from Austria, through a voyage in one of my crime novels. He was studying navigation with the plan of getting a boat of his own, and he messaged me on Facebook, saying that he thought Cass, my sailing heroine, had got lost in her own waters, turning north to go to Hamnavoe, which was clearly south on Google maps.

Mistaken identity