Practical Boat Owner

Taxing times

Dave Selby is the proud owner of a 5.48m (18ft) Sailfish, which he keeps on a swinging mooring on the picturesque Blackwater estuary in Essex

My accountant is a fully paid-up member of the Magic Circle with impressive juggling skills and a marvellous knack of making things disappear. In more normal times I’d get him to fill in my sailing club renewal but what with social distancing rules I’m no longer allowed to visit him at Wormwood

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