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“What’s cool right now...” (according to GQ magazine)

 

A QBE pilot cutter in Saint-Malo Bay.

We came across this the other day and thought we’d pass it along, just FYI:

What’s Cool Right Now, According to Stylish People With Great Taste

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[…] 4. Sailing on Your Lunch Break

Every Tuesday, [interior magazine Apartamento cofounder Nacho Alegre] leaves his office in Barcelona around one, bikes to the sea, hops in his five-meter dinghy—which he bought secondhand for just a couple thousand euros—and races out on the glimmering Mediterranean. “And then I’m back in the office by 3:30,” he says. Alegre doesn’t quite understand why sailing isn’t more popular. “It’s pretty physical,” he says, and cheaper than you might think. Not too long ago, he notes, all of his friends started rock climbing, “like everywhere in the world.” There’s no reason, he says, why sailing couldn’t become the next big craze.