Why is it that some sailors are forever linked to a particular boat? Take Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, skipper of many yachts over his long career, including a Jules Verne catamaran called Enza in which he and Peter Blake set a new record back in the day, but it’s always Suhaili with which he is most associated. Does he mind? You’ll have to ask him!
There are parallels: Sir Roger Bannister, with a long and distinguished medical career who, while a student, broke the four-minute mile, or Sir Edmund Hilary, whose contribution to humanity was, arguably, more beneficial to those he helped post-Everest, the Sherpas of the region, than merely gaining the top of the world.
Examples abound too in the world of entertainment. Sir Roger Moore: always James Bond, and…