When I started boating back in Iceland more than 30 years ago, I did so with a homemade 14ft speedboat. From there, I quickly progressed to a Shetland 2250SS, which my friend and I modified to take a Volvo Penta KAD42 – and while it was never designed for that, it turned out to be a terrific sea boat. Having moved to the UK, my boating was then limited to the occasional visit to Iceland, so to keep my sanity, I bought a used Sealine 410 in Germany, before bringing it back to its new home port in Chichester Harbour.
While this was probably my all-time favourite boat, a visit to