Busy weekend, all good though, saw lots of mates, all looking a year older!

• Best boat of the show?  Well the Flying 10 was certainly exceptional, but this is 2017  so I would have to go with the Cadet (Synergy Marine) and the Albacore (Ovington Boats) as runner up.

If you  cannot read this original certificate the date on it is   27th march 1957, it was the year that the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, “Which” magazine was published for the first time, and very topically six nations-France,West Germany, Italy,Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg set up the European Common Market. We are busy organising the Dinghy Show at the moment, but after that there will be some celebrations!

We have just finished a production run of the all  new aluminium 29er trolley,  the first and last are always  returned to  the workshop to check conformity. This one will be dispatched to Ovington  Boats after the Dinghy Show and then  exported to India.    (All aluminium 29er and 49er trolleys are sold through Ovington Boats.)

Politics  so  they say  is a  difficult even brutal  business,  one minute you are addressing the nation from the dispatch box, the next you are skipping about in bright clothing with  green makeup (yes bright green) on a Saturday night game show. Politicians have to be tough, that said Mathew Offord came into the shop today and you would find  it hard to come across a more charming man.  Even when I am winging at him about local issues he is always very positive, so we are always pleased to see him. We sadly did not have much time to discuss the state of the economy and   Article 50 because Mathew was far too busy showing photos of his newly acquired GP which he was in the process of restoring. We both believe in the philosophy   in life it is very important to keep a sense of proportion