Skipper’s View
IN 2019 I RECALL CHATTING TO a slightly jaded colleague about the upcoming Southampton Boat Show. It would be his 20th show and he mused on the slightly weird time warp sensation that the boat show engendered; years blurred and melded into one as you entered the show in a manner that he both found comforting and also disconcerting as the years zoomed by. 'When will it all end?' he concluded. Well, who would have thought that one year on, the show would end in the most dramatic style with a Health Secretary taking a break from some illegal kissing to issue a panicked memorandum on the eve of the show in order to shut it down, locking the gates even as the first eager visitors arrived. Not much in…