Great minds

Now and then: Foster’s yacht and the 1950s Scheherazade.

Thank you to BD reader Alex Weatherhead, who points out to Boots the similarity between Norman Foster’s luxury yacht (Boots March 30) and one designed by Alex’s father, Willie John Weatherhead, in East Lothian in the early 1950s.

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