Sam Llewellyn writes nautical thrillers, edits The Marine Quarterly, and is perpetually patching up a 30ft ketch: samllewellyn.com
Scilly is a dangerously rocky spot, as you’ll have noticed if you have sailed there. Among the islands beachcombing, known locally as wrecking, has over the years become a fine art. Scilly wrecking is not the wicked old lantern-on-a-cow’s-horns murder-by-drowning.
Indeed, it has even received Divine approval: one of its patron saints, St Warna, was famous for raising gales to relieve
