Yachts & Yachting magazine

Andy Rice DINGHIES

“It performs very similarly in speed to a Laser, but without requiring anything like the same level of fitness or agility”

Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave Sailing. No, Sir, when a man is tired of Sailing, he is tired of life; for there is in Sailing all that life can afford.

So said one of England’s most famous writers, Samuel Johnson, back in 1777. OK, so he was actually talking about England’s capital, but when you substitute ‘London’ for ‘Sailing’, the quote works quite well,

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