GOOD WILL HUNTON
My boating career started with racing sailing dinghies in the Solent. It was a natural progression from there to windsurfing and I whiled away many happy weekends blasting around the Solent on a variety of ever smaller, faster boards. Then came the children, bless them. Sadly, the ethos of windsurfing (stop everything, the wind has started to blow) is more or less the exact opposite of trying to bring up a young family and it wasn’t long before the windsurfing gear was hung up and a year later sold to raise cash.
When I hit my early thirties, work was going well and I decided to buy a brand new Four Winns sportsboat. I’d never really expected to move from sail to power but with our busy family oriented life, it worked fabulously. Dry stacks weren’t around back then, so it was kept in the water at Ocean Village marina. We had some fabulous times on that boat and after a while we upgraded to a Sunseeker Portofino 37. It cost a small fortune to run so after a couple of years we got rid of it and entered the world of RIBs, starting with a 7.5m before upsizing to an 8.5m. We kept it on a
