The greatest show
I am looking forward to visiting the RYA Dinghy Show this month, which runs from 29 February to 1 March at Alexandra Palace in north London. For the small-boat sailor, the show is a must, an upbeat celebration of our sport, where everyone, exhibitors and visitors, are all into the same kind of sailing. Conveniently, the show also comes at a time when pulling on a wetsuit and getting afloat on an icy reservoir is not top of my to-do list. Our columnist Andy Rice, who organises the Selden SailJuice Winter Series, may have stern words with me over this, but I admit I usually get to about mid-November before quietly reneging on my annual promise to sail through to the summer. Yes, I know, a blast round the harbour…