IT IS a truism widely accepted amongst the Laser Fleet that when Donald is the Race Officer, no-one checks to see whether it is too windy to go sailing! And so it was that a bunch of intrepid laser sailors were rigging their boat, on the hard, knowing that they were going racing, despite the presence of a pretty powerful depression....

“On ne saurait faire d'omelette sans casser des œufs”, or so the French would have us believe, but have you ever noticed that when you do crack some eggs to make an omelette, the yokes invariably remain perfectly formed until you whisk them up. ...