The media carry-on about the thwarted yacht race (surely the most boring spectacle in all of sport) ignores a simple reality.
That is the cold hard fact that dolphins are playful and love nothing more than surging and diving alongside moving vessels’ bows.
The Black Sea is full of them. I’ve criss-crossed it on ships and it’s the loveliest spectacle watching them leading the way, moreso when in the centre of that vast sea, twice the area of New Zealand, when out of sight of land.