I bought my main boat, a Windy Bora 40, in 2001. It’s a fabulous craft for everything from family outings to week-long cruises that I still own and use regularly. However, back in 2006, when our four children were all in their late teens and early twenties, it soon became apparent that they were more into wakeboarding and waterskiing than hanging around at anchor with their middle-aged parents. What they really wanted was something smaller and sportier which they could take out on their own. Given that I wasn’t prepared to downsize from the Windy (and certainly wasn’t going to let them take it on their own), I agreed to buy a second smaller boat.
As I was going to be funding it, I wanted it to be a proper sea boat, which we could use all year round, rather than a fair
