JAMES BURLAND BSC BARCH MST (CANTAB) FRSA ARB - James Burland BSc BArch (Bath) MSt IDBE (Cantab) ARB FRSA

Sailing into New York was special and strange. “You can see the light 30 hours out at sea before you arrive,” said Briand. “There is a glow, and you think: what the f*** is this? And then you come closer and closer and see the great high buildings, a place where money is the religion.” At sea all the materialism of the land had washed away into the elements of sky and wind. “Money only has the value that you give to it. I didn’t want to go ashore,” he told me.

From The Long Read “It’s a little bit of Utopia”:The dream of replacing container ships with sailing boats -Wendell Steavenson , The Guardian 14th July 2022 .