A cold shower and shredded £50s: The reality of Mediterranean yacht ownership

From Croatia to Malta, Nick Ridley shares the joys and expensive jolts of his first Mediterranean season aboard a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45DS

I wonder what proportion of Yachting Monthly readers are boat-owners? And what proportion are dreamers? And how many of the latter spend how many years wondering how to become the former?

Do you remember those inspired Glenfiddich advertisements in YM with an alluring picture of a yacht under full sail, surging along beneath majestic Scottish coastal scenery?