Cut and thrust of sailing

Mad about the boat

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

I’ve been thinking of fitting a bow thruster to my Sailfish 18, and a stern thruster too, for good measure. These will be cunningly fashioned by repurposing batteryoperated handheld smoothie blenders, with a manual egg-whisk as back up, as outlined in my forthcoming academic paper which is