LIFE IN THE BIG LEAGUE
It’s a Thursday afternoon in September, the day before the finals of the RYA British Keelboat League, and Daryl Conyers is still looking for crew. Several people have dropped out of his Royal Western Yacht Club team and he’s spent the past week on the phone looking for replacements. For the Royal Western to take its place in the finals, Daryl just needs two other sailors, but as every skipper knows, finding crew is never easy. The club qualified via the regional event it hosted earlier in the summer and is keen to be on the startline. But now, with about 14 hours to go, Daryl has all but given up. He goes off to the pub in Plymouth for a pint, where he bumps into Chris Harris, aged 18, a keen J/24 sailor,
