“If you had asked me at the beginning of last week whether or not we would soon be receiving the deposit for a superyacht purchase, I would have said ‘no’ – but we have,” starts Maclaurin. “And, if you asked me on Friday if we would have been drafting a letter of intent on Monday morning for €10million, I would have thought you were being daft. And yet, that is precisely what I was doing with one of our brokers this morning. There is light at the end of the tunnel and, thankfully, it is not an oncoming train.”