Hull and Sail

71 min

Best for: falling asleep to a story

On a tide-worn stretch of the Galician coast, a widowed boatbuilder named Manuel sets out to build a lancha alone in a cooperative shed where he has no right to the timber. A split sternpost, a stranger's steam box, and a heron mark stamped in red ink slowly draw him back toward the people, and the wife, he had stopped speaking to.

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About this session

Hull and Sail is a sleep story from Salūs Rooms — a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace.

Salūs Rooms is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS, Android and web — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial.