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
Sitting down on the parapet of the bridge over the river Great Ouse in St Ives I reflected that there comes a time when a man has to stand up.
I stood up, looked over the edge of the bridge, and there on the medieval masonry saw what I thought was the