johnalison
Well-known member
My father thought about buying a boat In his 50s. He actually ordered one from Mitchell’s in Portmellon but Hitler had other ideas and my sister and I came along instead.Possibly could be related to the idea of leisure and the “week end” becoming an established time.Working at Hillyards in the late 1960s certainly no boatbuilders had the slightest interest in actually sailing,except the foreman who built his own boat and on the wages at the time a hillyard nine toner would be a dream.Probably it was grp and the cheaper labour force that made yachting more attractive.There are other factors like a generation inheriting,like my father who was fifty at the time and having paid off the mortgage could thing about buying a boat