Nurturing Passion

"I remembered well the precise moment that aspiration had started. It was at a fête at St Vincent's where Bruce Dalling and Voortrekker had been the star attraction. It amazed us that the little boat cradled in its trailer could race across the world's oceans. His father knew the man who kept renewing the one relevant book in the library. He was building a Mirror class dinghy. We learned from him how to shape sheets of marine ply and sew them together with copper wire."