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Jane Cumberlidge has regularly cruised the Biscay coast of France, the Basque coast of Spain, Brittany and the Channel Islands as well as the West Country. For the last 25 years she has freelanced, writing and editing books and magazine features on nautical topics. She is also a photographer and has an extensive library of images on coastal, inland waterway and general nautical subjects.Dick Durham started sailing aged 12 and has cruised from Norway to Gibraltar; been at the end of a lifeboat tow-rope in the Bay of Biscay when a force 10 storm disabled the 55ft brigantine, Black Pearl and raced in the America’s Cup Jubilee aboard the 12 metre Victory. He acted as watch leader aboard Gipsy Moth IV on two legs of her second circumnavigation, crewed for Sir Robin Knox-Johnston aboard Suhaili, and has written six sailing books.Norman Kean has been sailing the coast of Ireland since 1980, contributing to pilot books since 1984, and has been Editor of the ICC Sailing Directions since 2005. He is frequent contributor to Yachting Monthly and has extensive knowledge and experience of this area.Jonty Pearce is a lifelong cruising yachtsman and retired GP. He keeps his Southerly 105 ketch Aurial in Milford Haven and regularly sails with his wife Carol. Jonty started sailing dinghies at the age of 10 and holds the RYA Yachtmaster Offshore qualification.Dag Pike began his career as a merchant captain, went on to test RNLI lifeboats, and took up fast boat navigation, winning a string of trophies for powerboat races around the world, including navigating Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Challenger on the record-breaking fastest Atlantic crossing by powerboat. He later became a navigation and powerboat journalist in demand all over the world.
