Bodge-jobs don't work

Trying to find shortcuts around tricky boating tasks usually doesn’t work. In fact it often creates more problems than before.

- Timothy Long

As an inherently lazy teenager, I have dug myself into this hole too many times – and every single time my skippers have made me sit in said hole and deal with the consequences. In a fantastic French accent, my skipper once said: ‘Tim, I want it to be beautiful. It must look good and then it WILL be good.’ And when I got it wrong: ‘Mais Tim, what is this?! IT’S NOT BEAUTIFUL!’