Mr Tripp buys a lifestyle: A rib-tickling look at buying a boat

Colin and Vivian Tripp buy a 'bargain' cement boat called Moonlighting with only the vaguest notion of boating. They envisage plain sailing, easy living and plenty of it. 



What they get is a bucket load of troubles, a myriad of mishaps - plus some fun. 



From the intricacies of anchoring to taming sea sickness, they weather the storms to eventually find a joie de vivre, albeit with the aid of an assortment of characters, who all seem to be experts about something.