I’ve written a brief biography of Brian Donovan, one of several remarkable people who showed up during our “concrete boatbuilding” days from 1972 to 1981. When I say brief, it’s 8000 words with plenty of photos, anecdotes and design drawings. At this stage it’s a first draft, so corrections, comments, additions and amendments are welcome.

I described Brian as “a brilliant, generous man, flawed like the best of them, filled with confidence in both himself and you” — and creative, “attracted by, and to, people with dreams.” Which is exactly how we met him, designer of the boat we’d blithely decided to build and sail around the world.

The world has moved on and they’re disappearing, people like Brian, and so are the interesting times they lived through. They don’t deserve to be forgotten.