Sam Pitt, one of Whitstable’s extreme windsurfers about 10 years ago, is on a shortlist of 50 from 34,684 applicants for the ‘best job in the world’ in Hamilton Island in Australia. Check the islandreefjob website – and be very envious! The tenuous Merlin connection is that whilst he was teaching our sons and daughters to windsurf we taught him to sail a Merlin.