Yachts & Yachting magazine

Paul Heiney

‘Niggles are those little things that can completely spoil your day, and your temper’

I suppose that somewhere in the world there is the perfect boat entirely free from niggles, by which I don’t mean major design faults that might imperil your life, but rather little things that make you curse on a daily basis, drive you to distraction, and have you sticking pins in images of the boat builder. If there is such a boat, I have certainly never owned it. Niggles are those

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