Cruises ranging far and wide are described in this issue — Lake Erie, Scotland, Greece — all are seen to be splendid dinghy cruising areas. The cruise nearest home seems to me to have been much the most adventurous. We don’t have easy sailings on the coasts of Britain, with weather striking us from the North Atlantic and tides, often fierce, never to be discounted. If you can sail a Mayfly around the Inner Hebrides, you can sail just about anywhere! (especially with no centreboard).

While I work out the tides affecting sailing from a mooring in an estuary I’m not yet used to — the Lune — I begin to hanker after sunny tideless Greece again. But, all those hours of rowing? No, here I can go for a day’s sail with no wind at all and come back according to plan, just drifting down over the bar and back on the evening tide. Given a better summer this year, with gentler winds, this idyllic picture may even come true. JA