Sinking feeling

Conventional thinking, as taught on courses, suggests that boats are supposed to have water on the outside. Then they confuse matters by telling you that if water is on the inside you’re supposed to be on the outside. Let me clarify.

Ever since Tom Cunliffe invented sailing in the 1960s – and even before that – boatbuilding has taken a wholly hole-istic approach.

Early boats were made of things called trees. This didn’t work because the gaps between the