Libby Purves ponders wardrobe discipline and paper pants in her January 2014 podcast

“Ah, the Boat Show! Feel those plastic cards a-throbbing and a-wriggling in your wallet! They long to escape and buy beautiful, bone-dry, shiny new bits of kit, to distract you from the horrid, dank state of your actual boat…”

Every month we publish a
new Libby Purves podcast where the Radio 4 broadcaster – and lifelong
sailior – reflects on her cruising life.

You
can listen to more of Yachting Monthly’s Libby Purves podcasts – as well as
our Tom Cunliffe podcasts – at www.yachtingmonthly.com/podcast…

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