ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gilbert Park has been sailing for 40 years, starting first with a Mirror dinghy on the River Tamar and then graduating through various Drascombes. When arthritis made handling ropes difficult he moved on to power boats, first a RIB then a Seaward followed by a variety of larger boats. He and his wife, Maire, have kept a boat in the Mediterranean for the past four years and still remember the trepidation of the early days of mooring up.