Published by Cailean Macleod October 21st, 2007
in History, The Sea and Writing.
A friend, Simon gave me this 1947 copy of the Clyde Cruising Club’s Sailing Directions for the West Coast of Scotland earlier in the year. There are some lovely hand drawn diagrams for harbours, sea lochs and anchorages.
The text makes for interesting reading. Not much as you might think has changed in the preceeding 60 […]
Published by Cailean Macleod October 13th, 2007
in Writing.
The fantastic maps in Pesda Press’s guidebooks are carefully produced on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde by the award winning cartographer, Don Williams.
However author’s need some way of conveying the routes and the associated mine of information which needs to placed on the maps to Don. So out comes the coloured pencils and […]
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