Downstream

strong easterly wind.
By 1938, however, Derham
was working as a swimming
pool superintendent. ‘I
thought I was made,’ he told
the press, ‘but the world
forgets quickly. For a year or
two I have lived like a lord,
but in the long run I lost
money over it. And then I had
to find a new career.’ Now he
had another idea: he would be
the first to glide across the
Channel ‘from a straight take-