Motor Boat & Yachting - January 2016 UK

LETTERS

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engines, 25 max. For your information (and
his!), I have compiled quite a detailed
Wikipedia reference entry on the Corvette.
I’ve sourced a lot of material and researched
all the facts as carefully as I could. It can be
found on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Corvette_Motoryacht.
In the meantime, our Corvette Owners
Group is still expanding and now numbers
close to 30 boats. Anyone interested in
Corvettes is welcome to join, even if they are
still at the thinking stage. David Morrison
I bow to your greater knowledge on all things
Corvette and have sent the offending author on
a six-year Corvette ‘rehabilitation’ programme.
Glad to hear the club’s going great guns. Hugo

Life on the river
As a displacement boat owner who has
enjoyed both inland and coastal cruising in
equal measures over the years, I have always
thought that MBY’s decision to ignore the
canals and inland waterways was a little
pig-headed, bordering on the snobbish.
I read Peter Cumberlidge’s account of his
inland delivery run from Paris to Auxerre in a
Linssen (MBY, Sept 2015) with great interest
and hoped that it wasn’t a one-off. So I was
delighted to read Hugo acknowledging this as
a deliberate change of tack (Ed’s letter, MBY
Dec 2015).
There is so much to enjoy about exploring
the inland waterways, from the charming
countryside to the friendly locals and
fantastic eateries, so I’m glad to hear you will
now be approaching this underrated way of
boating with an open mind. Sure, you can
rarely get into double figures in terms of
speed on the canal system, but I always say

that the journey matters

more than the destination.

Trevor Thompson

I’d like to point out that we never entirely

ignored the inland waterways in the past but we

did try to leave enough clear water for Motor

Boats Monthly to have its own USP. With that

limitation no longer in place, we are simply

embracing it more openly. Hugo

Smooth sundowners You can just make out Kevin Fagan’s wife,

Sue, enjoying a glass of wine and this stunning sunset from their shiny

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