Yachts & Yachting magazine

Andy Rice DINGHIES

A month ago, when I was writing the previous edition of this column, I was moaning about Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis hitting the UK on the back of an already heinously wet and windy winter. How that seems an aeon ago, and how trivial a severe storm can seem now. By the weekend of the RYA Dinghy Show, Storm Jorge was making itself known, but so was the ever-nearing threat of coronavirus.

As I set foot in Alexandra Palace I resorted to a weekend of elbow bumping, which at the time

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