Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:55
Is it possible to learn the basics of three major watersports in a single day? To find out we took an unsuspecting volunteer down to Action Watersports in Kent. Adrian Porter and the victimised Matt Barker report.
Monday mornings don’t normally start off with someone phoning and begging you take an expense paid trip to Italy the next day, where on a gloriously Italian lake you are given the chance to muck around on one of Sea Ray’s newest boat – but hey, some Mondays are just better than others.
Is it possible to learn the basics of three major watersports in a single day? To find out we took an unsuspecting volunteer down to Action Watersports in Kent. Adrian Porter and the victimised Matt Barker report.
It is a boat owner’s nightmare. You’re lovingly caressing the hull of your pride and joy when your fingers come across something that should not be there – a blister. Is it osmosis? How do you find out? What do you do? Relax, and let Nick ‘Dr Diagnosis’ Vass, explain all.
Alex Smith heads for the expanding MRL fleet to test the latest and reputedly greatest incarnation of the Stingher 800 GT
The EVO is a 7.5 metre boat that will cruise at twenty knots using just seven litres of petrol per hour and can be towed by a Ford Focus.
Could this be the boat of the future? Simon Everett finds out.
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