Practical Boat Owner

Watch your wash

here’s a tale behind the photo of Will Renilson’s elegant Jersey 36 in Peter Poland’s ‘We swapped sails for power’ article ( September 2022). When Will asked us to take some photos of under way for he forgot to mention that we’d have our own personal bouncy castle for the

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