Streets ahead

Don Street should be furious. As far as I was concerned, prior to 2013 there was only one “The Don” and only one Don who spoke of himself in the third person and that was Don Street – a legend in his own lifetime. The emergence of The Donald is an unwelcome distraction but I’m confident Mr Street will see him off.

Street has been a fixture of the yacht cruising scene since the 1950s. He has had countless books published and his / charts are still the industry standard in much of the Caribbean. Indeed, Street’s name is synonymous with the Caribbean and his claim to have made bareboat cruising possible out there is only half said in jest. Back when he, his beautiful classic engineless yawl. So who is Don Street? Was he ever something other than the barnacle-encrusted mariner I see before me? It’s hard to imagine but yes, yes he was.