any a reader’s first experience of a boat would have been a small, glassfibre dinghy, tender perhaps to a small glassfibre cruising yacht, a Corribee, or something grander, depending on parental income. For others, slightly older, a Mirror dinghy, home built, and those of a generation born in the fifties it would have been a clinker pram or, in my case, Greenfly, my naval grandfather’s 15ft pride and joy, wrecked when a hurricane lifted
