A MUSICAL LEGACY
What the school produces is kind and generous people . I have a sort of surrogate uncle , a Wykehamist , who I ’ ve known since I was two years old . Such a nice person .
We invest £ 228,000 a year
in the Quirister programme
When James left school , he sailed round the world . He wanted to do something with boats and their equipment . He landed a good job as the fifth employee hired by a start-up called Garmin which was an early pioneer in satellite navigation and in turning the devices used by ships and aircraft into small , user-friendly gadgets which could sit on the dashboards of cars . He has always worked with sailing equipment and has worked as a technical writer for Sailing Today , for which he now mostly makes videos . The day we met James was on his way to a marine engineering trade show in Amsterdam which he visits every year .
He works only one day a week now , and he and Linda lived on a barge sailing the canals of Europe for two years after James stopped full-time work . They have lived in 14 places in all . Their current home is a Devon farm where James can indulge two passions . He has restored two antique tractors and revived a cider-apple orchard which now produces 300 litres of cider and apple juice a year .
Playing his Viscount Cantorum digital organ
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