I’ve been re-reading Hiscock, not the one who directed the film about the scary birds, that’s Hitchcock. While The Birds is still being shown on streaming sites, I am pretty sure that no one under the age of 40 will have heard of Eric and his wife Susan who, in those pristine cruising years soon after the war, sailed the world, and closer at home, in a series of Wanderers, the second being a gaff cutter designed by Laurent Giles, who also drew her successor, Wanderer III. It is the account of her second circumnavigation that popped out from a groaning bookshelf the other day.
I almost forced myself to open it. What a dry old stick, I thought. A day later, without a break aside from meals, I closed…
