Pessimists might say that there couldn’t be a more inapropriate time to buy a boat, but Yachting Monthly’s Dick Durham today set out to defy those defeatist opinions.

Our intrepid reporter visited the Barclays stand at the London Boat Show for a (theoretical) loan, before setting out to see what he could achieve.

See how he got on in the video below:

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