
None of my visits to this Mecca of the regatta leaves me indifferent, I have accumulated so many memories, since my first stop on the family boat (and my fall in the Medina while I wanted to do my smarts with the appendix) to the UK 2016 championship followed from the Commodore’s Cup with Andrew Hurst, the editor of Seahorse magazine to which I have been collaborating ever since, to my years on the malignant crazy one-toner Crazy Horse, my regattas at the helm of the paternal half-tonner, the Admiral’s Cup on Ossian and Proud Lady. The landing of the Red Funnel shuttle to the High Street is my personal little madeleine.