The people’s boatbuilder

Flotsam and jetsam

Sam Llewellyn sails a 30ft ketch he rescued from dereliction

Back in the water again, and there are boats everywhere. There are the usual blacksailed rockets, weather rails crowded with eager speedfreaks, cranked up to an earthshattering 8.3 or even 8.4, lawdy! knots. There are the school boats and the charter boats, symphonies in white plastic with cockpits full of people much given to chaotic sail changes and slightly