Jon – it’s not a sailing boat but we have a Salcombe Flyer!

My uncle owns the old Custom House (pinkish colour next to the Lifebot place) on the front at Salcombe – nice gaff.

I do like South Devon – inlaws have a gaff in Newton Ferrers so there quite often.

Just to be picky – my dad didn’t have a Bantham boat, but had one of the original inter-war prototypes. Now that was really quick and immediate… We used to race against the yawls in the local regatta because it was so much faster than the later Bantham boats.

My uncle has a really odd Salcombe yawl though – I think it’s the only one ever fitted with an inboard engine (which could break your thumbs if you weren’t careful starting it – old enough to need hand-cranking to start). That was the one we holed at Duck Cove one day in the days before mobile phones, too!

Sharkbait: finn?

Used to sail these: hard work, technically brilliant and date back to 1900s