Acknowledgements

There are a lot of people to thank for their ideas, information, help, photographs and criticisms, particularly my family who have been landed at unsuitable places, walked to non-existent beaches, sat and shivered while I took the perfect shot, and dragged around mouldering castles: Ben, Margaret, Oli, Lucy, William, Ilona and Cathie. Others who have been a great help include the Fox family (all five of them in their ridiculously small 25ft yacht) and of course Richard Roberts who is the co-owner of Calypso, our Contessa 32 which we have owned together since 1988 when coincidentally we both moved from England to Scotland. It was Stuart Taylor, a publisher, who suggested that a web site would be more appropriate than a book, and Steve Druitt who suggested the incredibly easy to use webtools produced by Moonfruit.