Have a new boat to launch this spring? Here's how NOT to treat your guests... if you want them to remain friends! A few spectacular launches that ended up with the watching crowds feeling rather damp... and not from the champagne!

 


 

Boat launching

Written by: Gael Pawson
Gael Pawson is the editor of Yachts & Yachting Magazine and the founder of Creating Waves. A keen racer, she has sailed all her life, and started writing about the subject whilst studying journalism at university. Dinghies and small keelboats are her first loves, but she has cruised and raced a huge variety of boats in locations across the world.