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As may be guessed from the Navigation Bar, the site includes 4 basic areas,
namely Sailing, Flying, Local (UK) and Abroad. Sailing covers some of the
holiday cruises I have undertaken both with my own boat Saga and a friend’s
larger yacht, Stravaig. Our Solstice Cruises have been particularly memorable.
However, all sailing in a small yacht is an experience that I was not familiar
with until I turned 40. What a waste of the years before that! Abroad covers our
holidays to various ‘airts n’ pairts. We now actually go on holidays to foreign
parts which makes a change from our younger years. I think the economics of all
the travel companies we use would disintegrate were it not for the silver haired
brigade. Local of course covers UK events mostly and the odd short break. Some
items may be of interest.
Welcome Born and brought up in Kirkwall city, (see image above including
cathedral) capital of Orkney, the archipelago has always been‘in my affections’.
I left Orkney at a tender age and initially pursued a career in the RAF which
was very rewarding. To escape an eventually pending desk job, later I pursued a
‘career’ in civil aviation which proved almost as varied and challenging, in
some ways, as military flying. Now fully retired, my main interests include
sailing in a time consuming old boat, photography, editing and publishing The
Growler , a quarterly magazine of the Shackleton Association,
www.thegrowler.org.uk , website creation,-but not the Growler site-a little bit
of holiday travel and messing about with computers. Don’t take the site
seriously (as if you would)-it is just me having a bit of fun and testing some
new ideas. Oh, I nearly forgot. I cut the grass too, and take out the bins,
sometimes even putting them back!

 * Sailing Introduction
 * Orkney Scenes 2002-2008
 * West Highlasnd Week 2006
 * Solstice Cruise 2009
 * Solstice Cruise 2012
 * West Coast Sailing 2014
 * Hebrides, Skye and Shiant Isles 2014
 * West Coast Sailing 2016
 * Orkney Sailing 2018
 * West Coast 2019
 * Doon the Watter

 * The Burning of the Clavie
 * London Visit 2010
 * Swell at Lossiemouth Marina
 * Guy Fawkes Night Forres
 * Orkney Visit (Non sailing)
 * Xmas Ba' 2017
 * The Enchanted Forest


 * Gallery Two
 * Gallery One


 * Cambodia
 * Saigon
 * Barbados
 * The Rhine
 * Mekong Delta
 * The Danube
 * Sorrento
 * Lake Garda
 * The Baltic