Practical Boat Owner

Keeping your cool

Sam Llewellyn writes nautical thrillers and edits The Marine Quarterly. He is currently patching up a 30ft ketch

Long, long ago, when boats were built of wood and there were hardly any yachts in the Med, my friend Barend Wolf used to drive his Brixham trawler up and down the Cote d’Azur.

His arrival was much anticipated. Partly this was because the guests on his plainly but beautifully fitted-out boat included the

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