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Wondering

I’ve been rather aloof of late. However I’ve had something more important to deal with.
Deadlines are good to sharpen the mind so they say. Well I’m now aiming to finish the first draft of the guidebook by the end of September. So its time to burn the midnight oil!

Sneaky look

Franco has revised the excellent ‘Sea Kayak Navigation’ book to include colour photos along with updating parts of the book e.g. Use of GPS.

Peter Wood and Don Williams have added their touches to the book in terms of graphics and maps.

The result is that I think the book will appear in many sea kayaker’s Christmas […]

The 1947 Edition

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 […]

Making maps

 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 […]


About

I'm currently writing a sea kayaking guidebook for the Northwest Highlands; Cape Wrath to Ardnamurchan Point including Skye & the Small Isles. This blog will keep you updated as to my progress and hopefully the blog and in turn the book will inspire you experience the Northwest Highlands by sea kayak yourself.

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