Ian Lallow on Boatbuilding

I mean I was lucky enough to travel a bit of the World because of the job. As I’ve just said, I went to Australia twice, I went to three Olympic Games as Boatman, once to the Singapore Team and that’s a long story but just believe it. That was in 1960 when I was still at school actually, but then I went for the British Team to Tokyo in ’64 and again in ’68, just to look after their boats.

Again, unload them off the ship, put them together, and then I used to go and clean them up every day and any jobs that needed to be done, it was down to me to do them, you know.

Rigging jobs, whatever, patch up if they got damaged or anything.