On a ferry from Tortola, BVI, to St Thomas, USVI, last month I got chatting with a Swedish sailor who’d been surveying his yacht after chartering it out in the Caribbean. He introduced himself as Johan, and we discovered we had mutual friends – as is so often the case in our small sailing world.
“Oh, you were driving that Outremer in the marina yesterday weren’t you?” he asked me. “You were the one blocking the
