On Watch
SORRY ABOUT THAT The timing couldn’t have been worse. We sent the section containing our preview of the Sydney Boating Festival last month right as the rumours started on its coming cancellation. I heard the rumours and thought about pulling the pages, but clutched at the chances we could see all the dazzling gelcoat in Cockle Bay and bargains in the halls. Alas, it was not to be, again. Years ago, when the ICC was being redeveloped and SIBS was split between a temporary structure on Glebe Island and Cockle Bay, there were people suggesting it would kill boating in NSW and even Australia as a whole. Not having a show that could attract over 50,000 visitors was seen as a death knell for boating, apparently. Now, two years without a full-scale…