Demise of the classic era

ou can date the start of the demise of the classic and the beginning of the modern yacht building era to 1953, or thereabouts, and if that is also the year of my birth, it’s coincidental. It was, in the UK at least, also the start of what we call the New Elizabethan era, which began with such hope after so much misery and destruction. It saw the opening up of the country