Looking for boating pals

As a PBO subscriber for well over a decade, it was with great interest I read ‘Daysailing delight’ (Letters, PBO September 2017).

I’m an older guy (72) who has always loved the sea, and when I retired I bought a cabin cruiser which I sailed on inland water. Sadly my wife lost interest so I sold the boat after three years and bought a large inflatable which, though fun, was again domestically unacceptable, so I decided to cut my losses and buy a stable sea fishing kayak.

This worked well until deteriorating health meant I resorted to replacing the kayak with a safe, stable, roomy boat that’s easy to move around.

My purchase was a Takacat, a relatively new design of inflatable catamaran from New Zealand, which can be carried in my car, can be rowed if I’m feeling up to it, and is fine for a small engine for longer cruising.

My problem is that I’d like to find other like-minded sailors with maybe slight physical disabilities who’d like good company whilst sailing their craft and in doing so have great banter on many topics. But I can’t find any club or association, anywhere in Scotland (I live in Edinburgh) that caters for this group of people.

There must be hundreds, if not thousands, of older, relatively active, people out there… Grahame Wear Edinburgh