This is a country which romanticises a muscular anti-capitalist struggle, and whose people are more distrustful of globalisation than those anywhere else.

Her book How to Be a Domestic Goddess, published that year, was accused of romanticising a previous era when women were stuck in the kitchen.

While Spence says this trend partly reflects that yachting still involves romanticised notions of escape, it is also rooted in owners’ preoccupation with bragging rights.