The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Mercurial
So Uffa Fox was not a particularly good businessman – undoubtedly had his commercial flair matched his inventive genius he would have ended his days a rich man. As it was, others made far more money out of Uffa's brain than he did himself. But it can be argued that this is characteristic of many highly creative people; things like managing money are simply a distraction from the free-thinking flow that can create great and original design art.