Left to their own devices
hat was your first memory of sailing? A clinker dinghy called , perhaps, with a tan lugsail at Emsworth? Unlikely unless you knew my grandfather, whose boat she was, a retired RN commander, deaf from clinging to a spar after his ship was sunk in the North Sea by a salvo from a German cruiser in 1916, his deafness not so bad that he could pretend not to
