What keeps you awake in your bunk? Small stuff, or big stuff? If it’s just annoying halyards tapping in a breeze, or the snout of the rubber dinghy nudging you awake in the small hours when the tide turns, count yourself lucky.

‘Boats don’t always do what you expect; all the elements conspire to give you hell’

I once met a chap who told me he could never, ever sleep at anchor because he would become convinced he was adrift. His solution? To ditch