Britain looked west to the US. And to this day, the UK feels much closer to America than it does to the frogs and the krauts on the other side of the English Channel. One could see the strength of that bond as recently as 2003, when then-Prime Minister Tony Blair joined President George W. Bush in his Iraq adven

the largest European =oating magazines, took the 9.0m Hydrasol RIB out for a boat test and =eview. The reviewer once broke the record =or crossing the English Channel in an amphibious boat (way back in =005) on a 5.6m Sealegs, and was very impressed with how far the =echnology has come since then. MBY did a =ull