EDITOR’S LETTER
As we prepared to send this issue to the printers, our production editor said to me: “Are you sure you want to declare that ‘Monaco is back!’ so confidently on the cover?” I’m hoping to roll a seven on that prediction. It’s become clear that our industry can survive – even prosper – in the absence of boat shows, as the record-breaking performance of the brokerage market over the last 12 months has proven, but, speaking personally, I am aching for some human interaction that’s not screen-based, so I’m winging my prayers upwards in the hope the show goes ahead unaffected. It’s quite natural to have the opposite instinct, too: to want to get the hell out of Dodge. I loved reading our feature about voyaging to the farthest-flung comers…