WHY SETTLE FOR LESS?
Good on them, I say. They extend and often double the vessel’s life, reminding us of the days when boats were built as one-off works of art before fibreglass and carbon and new-fangled chemical aids. I have seen bronze plaques on bulkheads stating: “If God wanted us to have fibreglass boats he would have made fibreglass trees.”
As a keen ex-keeler yachtie I did not think that I would get personally involved in restoring a wooden boat, but fate decided otherwise. It happened while visiting an old business acquaintance of mine, Richard Leach, at
