Every so often a magazine other than this one arrives in the wooden letter box, up the stony track that leads down to Burnside Cottage. At the moment that entails a 200-yard trudge through deep snow, and one year the snow was so deep I had to borrow a pair of snow shoes. (Tip: keep your feet well splayed, or you’ll trip and fall flat on your face, whereupon it’s almost impossible to get up again).
As an antidote to Classic Boat – I won’t mention its name – I find it refreshing to read about foiling America’s Cup boats, top-level racing and impenetrable articles about the hydro-, and increasingly, aerodynamics of modern sailing. It is a far cry from the kind of boats we own and like to read about here, even if some of them are way beyond our means or aspirations.
This story is from the March 2021 edition of Classic Boat.
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