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 photograph, 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 was the co-owner of Calypso, our Contessa 32 from 1988 when coincidentally we both moved from England to Scotland, until 2010 when we both retired and bought a new boat each. It was Stuart Taylor, from Blackwells publishing, who suggested that a website would be more appropriate than a book, and he was right. And thank you to all those who, since the website was first launched in about 2010 and originally hosted by Moonfruit, have responded to my open invitation to put me right in various places, and particularly those who have pointed out some really very silly mistakes. Luckily one can correct a website instantly, unlike a guidebook.
And a very big thank you to Bob Bradfield (of Antares charts and the Royal Cruising Club) who after a tip-off got hold of a PDF from the website before it collapsed in early 2025, and kindly linked it to Antares charts where it was noticed by Clive Woodman (also from the Royal Cruising Club) who just happened to run Liveicom, a full-service IT company, and who has got the whole show back on the road for me. I could not possibly have done this without him for which I shall be eternally grateful. And, in passing, thanks to Sinan Guclu who in 2025 managed to find a partial archive of my original website from about 2019 in some dark corner of the internet, before it had been hosted by Wix and then vanished. Then, in late 2026, my friend Jon Stone just asked ChatGPT to reconstruct the website, and this is what you see here, more or less. Done in minutes. A frightening example of what Artificial Intelligence can do. Now it is easy to scrape off just a page of any anchorage and email it to friends, social media, or wherever.