About the Author

Mike Pickles is a foreman at harbour Marine Services in Southwold. he learned to sail aged four, flirted with an olympic campaign in his early 20s and continued with yacht deliveries and yacht and dinghy racing until his mid-40s. Now his knees have disintegrated, he is the proud (and slightly obsessive) owner of an MGrS34 ¾-tonner. n www.southwoldboatyard.co.uk