The fun is back in boating

The Windy 31 Zonda is a surprisingly affordable expression of unadulterated fun.

It's not just humans that put on weight and acquire an excess of stuff as they get older, says Alan Harper in the FT's How To Spend It. "Machines suffer the same fate." As technology improves and expectations increase, cars and boats become stuffed with more and more complicated electronics and refinements. This trend is reversing in a "new desire for simplicity".

Windy Boats has "read the runes more deeply than its rivals", says Harper. Its 31 Zonda model reflects a yearning for a time when boating was simpler and more fun.

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