So, what is a classic boat?

This column has finally run out of ideas and, perhaps fittingly, it being the last edition of the year (although through the strange vagaries of publishing it will be read by those loyal followers who claim to read this stuff in early November), it is time to admit defeat.

‘Not before time’, you sigh. Over the years it has covered such essential matters as: an other-worldly encounter via Ouija board with Admiral Nelson,; and, (ad nauseum), its views on plywood and epoxy.**