Nautical and Travel Writing

For some years we wrote a monthly column, Tell Tales, for the Times Colonist newspaper of Victoria covering travel in a nautical vein in far-flung locales stretching from India (boating on the Ganges, the rice boats of Kerala) to France (barging on the canals) as well as vignettes of noted sailors, shipwrights and other salty characters (samples enclosed). At the same time we launched the Questions of Seamanship column for Pacific Yachting magazine (O.P. Publishing) which expanded to boat reviews, boat building and restoration, voyaging, maintenance and diverse subjects such as log books and deviation, some of which are reproduced here.

Technical publications such as Seamanship Under Sail for the Canadian Sail Training Association, Sun Sights Made Simple for Lynx and Marine Emergency Duties - Proficiency in Survival Craft and Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats for Western Maritime Institute have been written (and illustrated) under contract for specialized purposes.

Other non-fiction short stories, book reviews, travel and maritime subjects have been published in the U.K., Canada, the U.S.A. and Australia including Classic Boat, Harbour and Shipping, the Edmonton Journal, Scamps and Scholars, CanWest Global publications, Sea History, Running Free, and others.