Sailing free
After a career spent restoring period properties, Stephen Ralph was looking for a project to take him and his partner Mandy into retirement — and found what he was looking for when he purchased a neglected infill plot near the sea in a coastal town near Harwich in Essex.
To be sure, the narrow slither of sloping land, with no foul drainage connection, was a gamble. Luckily Stephen managed to persuade a neighbour to sell him a slice more land, and
