The interior was amazing

Have a look at these websites. The yacht that I was shown around was built by Fairlie.

www.fairlierestorations.com/

www.spirityachts.com/

A shame about your local council workers

A visit to a not too distant cathedral should provide evidence of modern day skills in relation to stonework, albeit generally restricted to restoration.

Builders of timber boats are spread far and wide - Cornwall, Hampshire, Suffolk etc. - but a visit to the Southampton boat show should reveal a handful of stunning timber boats amongst the GRP exhibits.

I do have some photographs at work of an amazing brand new classic yacht in the Hamble. It cost multi millions.

Might I suggest a visit to almost any builder of timber boats :

The craftsmanship is amazing

Whilst talking to them, could you ask them to manufacture a DA* 135 - 300 or 135 - 400 lens

....................and the pricing : :

I agree that it does look to be sloping away.

It also looks dark on my office monitor but will probably look lighter on my monitor at home.

John,

Thank you for the suggestion but no luck there. I bought the lens as a result of a good review, probably Amateur photographer, since there were not many other photographic magazines at that time.

I shall see if they list their very old lens reviews

Does anyone know of a website that has information on older Sigma lenses, similar to Bojidar Dimitrov's Pentax site :

I am trying to find out some information about my Sigma 75-300 APO which probably dates from the mid 1980's. I bought it for use with my Super A.

I sent an e-mail to Sigma but the response was of no use whatsoever, stating that it is a discontinued lens and suggesting that I might like to buy the current version.

Interesting points............................

My entry last week was taken by my better half, since I was too busy avoiding collisions (whilst sailing)

I am not sure that the make of camera has actually been defined since quite a few entries are from the pre-digital age.

One of my favourites as well, but we must await the judging