Paul Heiney
‘There’s no pleasure to be derived from maintaining the perfect boat. Boats exist to be sailed’
It should be a lovely moment when the boat finally slips back into the water after a long winter ashore. It’s a kind of rebirth, both for boat and sailor. A new season dawns – new horizons to be reached for, hopes high, the excitement not unlike Christmas morning when you were a kid.
It was in March last year, and unseasonably early, as I stood, shivering in a biting
