Buck’s Fizz

IT was yet another UK corporate day in June on Dark Horse, the Ocean 60 Lloyds Bank Sailing Club yacht. One of several that month that helped pay to keep the old girl afloat.

This day, not unsurprisingly, our guests were mostly merchant bankers, brokers, etcetera from the city. After an early start from the big smoke, they had joined the four of us just before nine o’clock at Camper and Nicholson’s marina in Gosport.

We welcomed them onto the ’Horse’, then gave