MORE THAN SORTED!

At its most serious it is treated as merely a glamorous lark and is considered by most as anything but a real job. The reality is quite different; slave-driving editors, tight deadlines and bashing around in sometimes ill-suited camera boats in marginal weather is closer to the truth.

While the editors and deadline bits don’t change much, the array of photo boats is always an intriguingly diverse pool of naval architecture, dictated by what is available at the time. “I’ve got a mate who can help us out,” is usually the call. Either that or I resort to rowing my dinghy Spud around while being strafed by fast, spray-tossing boats.

Blessedly there was none of this when it