If it ain’t broke, don’t break it

Getting stuck into lockdown inventions

Dave Selby

There is no sound more nerve jangling to a sailor than the rending of Velcro on an oilie jacket as you’re sipping a mug of tea or trying to have a snooze. Why did they have to make Velcro sound exactly like a storm sail shredding in a Force 9 gale? Worse still, some boat owners have a fetish for Velcro that borders on sadistic. Seat cushions are secured by the stuff, curtains tied back with it, and oilies in the wet locker mate with one another in a frenzied hook-and-loop orgy that makes a suburban swingers’ party seem tame. Not that I’d know, but every time I hear that ripping sound it shreds my nerves and I leap up, put my lifejacket on, prise the VHF from its Velcro…

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Practical Boat Owner (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2020

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