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David and Susie Baggaley have lived in Menorca for over a decade and their Beneteau 42, Kookaburra, is based in Addaya. They have cruised these islands extensively for several years.
David and Susie are authors of Balearic Islands.
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Balearic Islands
Islas Baleares (English edition)
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Henry has worked for the RCCPF since 2009 and became sole author of Atlantic Spain and Portugal in 2012. He was an Engineer in RN submarines, with holidays spent cruising the coasts between Norway and Gibraltar. After a circuit of the Atlantic islands in 2007/2008 he cruised the Mediterranean for four years before a return to Britain in 2013 via the Atlantic coast.
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Atlantic Spain & Portugal
Atlantic Spain & Portugal
Espagne Portugal (French edition)
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Max grew up in Falmouth, Cornwall, and started sailing dinghies at the age of four. At 20, he left Cornwall on his 22' wooden sloop Flying Cloud, and completed a 10,000-mile singlehanded Atlantic circuit, to the Caribbean and back. A few years later, he restored a 37' S&S Swan called Elixir and set off on a circumnavigation. He is currently cruising the South Pacific, working on an updated version of South Pacific Anchorages.
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https://un-tide.com/
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Nick learned to sail on the Norfolk Broads aged six, and grew up sailing Wayfarers. He has been cruising for over 30 years in Western Europe and always finds himself back in Brittany. He is a dinghy and cruising instructor and sails a Bowman 40. He spent 20 years in the Army before setting up his own marketing company. He started researching and writing for the Pilotage Foundation in 2015. Nick is currently Commodore of The Royal Cruising Club.
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Atlantic France
Atlantic France
The Morbihan West France
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Kieran is a writer, editor and journalist whose main focus is on boats and sailing. He owns a 28ft Holman Twister, Cleaver II, which is currently based near Amsterdam. In the last 20 years he has cruised extensively in most sea areas between the Baltic and Biscay.
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Sarah and Sean Glynn are extremely experienced sailors with a passion for the sea. Sean had a career in the Army where he sailed all over the world with Sarah often joining him, where her career allowed. Their first boat was a Starlight 35 that they sailed extensively throughout the UK, Atlantic coast and Mediterranean. Wanting to go further they decided to go large and bought an Oyster 55, which they now live on full time. Taking on the authorship of Mediterranean Spain was a serendipitous opportunity that they are thoroughly enjoying.
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David grew up in a seaside home in Cork messing about in boats. His love of yacht cruising stems from teenage family holidays sailing in West Cork aboard a converted Baltimore sailing trawler. David first cruised to the Isles of Scilly as a teenager in 1970, and has taken his family on summer holidays there every year for the last 30 years. He has sailed various dinghies in and around the Islands almost every summer. He lives near Falmouth in Cornwall, and for many years he has sailed to the Islands and cruised around and about them, often several times, in his own yacht Pinstripe of Penryn.
David is a retired cardiologist who has cruised extensively in Northwest Europe. He has completed the Fastnet Race as crew. In his own yacht he has cruised on many occasions to the Isles of Scilly, the West Country, Southwest Ireland, Brittany, the West of Scotland including the Hebrides, as well as a sailing circumnavigation around Ireland. He has sailed more than 17,000M, is an RYA Offshore Yachtmaster, and a member of the Royal Cruising Club (RCC).
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Isles of Scilly
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Francis Hawkings was brought up in the UK, where he sailed dinghies and then a Contessa 26, mostly on the West Coast of Scotland. In 1993 he launched his Tradewind 35 Plainsong in California and has been sailing her in the Pacific, the South Atlantic and the Caribbean ever since.
After a shakedown cruise from California to Hawaii, Francis and Plainsong did a long loop around South America between 1997 and 2000, sailing from San Diego to French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Rapa Nui, the Patagonian Channels of Chile, Cape Horn, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, the Caribbean and Florida.
Now Plainsong is on the move again and heading generally west, having sailed from California to Japan via Hawaii in 2021 and then on from Japan to the Philippines in 2024.
Francis divides his time between California, Scotland and wherever Plainsong happens to be.
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Pacific Crossing Guide
Pacific Crossing Guide
Pacific Crossing Guide
Southern California Channel Islands
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Paul discovered his love for sailing in his early twenties. He started with a tiny 17 footer, bravely taking her across the Thames Estuary and onwards to Holland. He now has a 38 foot cutter, Wild Song, which he has taken to Cape Horn and back on a largely singlehanded sailing adventure of a lifetime.
Although a cruising sailor, Paul joined the Azores and Back Race in 2003 which gave him an appetite for ocean sailing. This led him to take part in the Singlehanded Transatlantic Race in 2005 - nearly 3,000 miles in 32 days alone.
Paul also has a regular column in Sailing Today magazine.
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Cape Horn and Antarctic Waters
Ocean Sailing
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https://www.paulheiney.com/
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Hilary ‘grew up’ in Dun Laoghaire harbour and has been living and sailing ever since. Hilary began sailing in a clinker-built pram dinghy and progressed to a Heron; she sailed and team-raced in university Fireflies, then a Flying 15, a GP in Nigeria, an Enterprise in Zimbabwe. She and her husband Bill bought their first cruising boat in Jamaica in 1970 - a Tartan 27, from there they raced and cruised in various craft in Australia and for 11 years in Dutch waters. Their last boat, a much beloved Aphrodite 42, was summer home to them in many parts of the Mediterranean.
A teacher, journalist, author of Ijsselmeer Harbours (1989); The Flavour of Holland (1994); also compiler of a history of the Irish Cruising Club 1979-2004; and now co-author of Atlantic Islands.
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Atlantic Islands
Atlantic Islands
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Steve and Cathy have both sailed since childhood and met on a course at JSASTC, with both having a Naval background. Owners of Wild Rival, the 1st Rival 34, since 2007, they enjoy classic racing and have cruised extensively along the Brittany and Normandy coasts. They also both sail as 1st Mates aboard OYT South’s 32m ketch, Prolific. They are looking forward to researching the Channel Islands, Cherbourg Peninsular and North Brittany pilot book.
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Judy started sailing dinghies in her teens. Between 1989 and 2014, she and her husband David spent 16 summers on their 1985 Beneteau First 345 Cloud Walker (owned from new) sailing in Norway, between the Swedish and the Russian borders and to Svalbard (which they circumnavigated in 2013) and Jan Mayen. Judy continues to sail Norwegian waters each summer, always researching and updating as she goes.
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Norway
Norway
Norway
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Andrew O'Grady started cruising when 17 and has been a member of the Royal Cruising Club since 1978. He qualified as a doctor and after working in Newfoundland and the Shetland Islands he sailed to New Zealand. He built Balaena for long distance cruises to remote places. More recently he has cruised the Baltic, before returning to Argentina and Chile.
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Argentina
Argentina
Argentina pdf
Chile
Chile
Chile
Chile North
Chile South
South Georgia Guide 2005
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Steve has been with the Pilotage Foundation since 2009 and has extensive experience of cruising the waters for which he writes since 1976 when he visited both South Biscay and Mediterranean Spain on a winter yacht delivery! More recently he circumnavigated Spain to survey Galicia to the Gironde, a trip that had Gibraltar and Cowes as its most southerly and northerly points.
We regret to announce that Steve passed away earlier in 2024 after a short illness having been taken ill while at sea. He will be profoundly missed.
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Costas Del Mediterráneo Español (Spanish edition)
Cote Cantabrique (French edition)
Mediterranean Spain
Mediterranean Spain
South Biscay
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Jane Russell learned to sail in dinghies as a child and team raced at university. She and her husband bought their first cruising boat, Tinfish, an old and rather rusty steel sloop, in their mid-twenties and then sailed it around the world via Panama and Suez. With young children they then coastal cruised a Woods catamaran and a Swift 18 trailersailer before completing the build of Tinfish II, which they sailed to Tunisia and back and more recently around Britain, before heading blue water once again. Jane began editing for the Pilotage Foundation in 2005.
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Aleutian Islands & Alaska
Atlantic Crossing Guide
Atlantic Crossing Guide
Electronic Navigation Systems
Handbuch fur den Atlantischen Ozean
Rites of Passage
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https://tinfish2.wordpress.com/
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Madeleine and Stephan are authors of Corsica and North Sardinia. They have been sailing extensively together since the 1970s on their yacht in Germany, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Madeleine has edited the Royal Cruising Club Finland Foreign Port Information notes since 2012, and has also been author of the Finland section of The Baltic Sea and its Approaches.
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Corsica and North Sardinia (English edition)
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https://bowman40.blogspot.com/
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