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The event, in its 47th year, is all about creativity, science and boatmanship.

It was buried in a box, just where he’d left it, between the pages of a book on boatmanship he’d been given on his thirteenth birthday.

They wanted to know of me whether I thought that boatmanship and knowledge of sailing would be accipted be the powers instid of wisdom as to bird-tracks and intimacy with wild animals and bugs.

Certain it was that The Big Mallard227 was the supreme test of courage and boatmanship.

With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach.