Radical change or evolution?

Dave Selby, our regular columnist, is a caustic wit at times, poking fun at anyone and everyone, not least the RYA. But he’s a sentimentalist at heart, you know. Watch out this month – he came across some very, very old photos at an auction and for the first time ever we have run his column without a cartoon.

There are no plans for permanent change, though, and Claudia Myatt will return with her regular illustrations next month. But it does just go to show: nothing is set in stone!

And as the headline above suggests that’s not the end of this month’s anarchy: Do you have a subscription to Netflix? If you do, take 90 minutes to watch Seaspiracy. It’s a recent documentary directly attacking the fishing industry worldwide, laying at its feet a startling array of very serious accusations. Netflix has riled quite a chunk of its very large audience and I can only imagine it will have the same effect on you.

I think leisure boaters have a unique perspective on this. How many decision-makers ever actually go to sea and share the water with fishermen, boats and gear? But I also appreciate that we do have readers that make their living catching or farming fish. Send us your thoughts.

Some housekeeping: please note our office address in Farnborough is no longer operational. All post should instead be forwarded to PBO, Future Publishing, 161 Marsh Wall, London E14 9AP

See page 28 for ‘Secrets of the East’ – Rupert Holmes’s review of Turkish, Greek and Croatian yacht designs with a sidebar about the traditional Greek fishing caique