is tears were said to cure wood rot. Too bad he never cried. And when he picked up the phone with the words “Wooden Ships” he sounded like an old pilot cutter would, if it could talk: no nonsense and quite posh, in an understated way. I speak, of course, of yacht broker Peter Gregson (our 2010 interview with him is reproduced at ). The new voice at the end of that phone belongs to son Richard, now 40, who took over the reins in 2017. “Boat brokerage wasn’t just a job. It was a way of life. We lived in a big wreck of a house. Mum did B&B and dad did the brokerage. It was a very free childhood –
