I hope you will enjoy the various articles as they unfold. In the
meantime you might like to obtain a copy the excellent book entitled
Sea Safety: The Complete Guide that is given away free by the
RNLI. It is a must have for any skipper.
I first met Geoff and his wife Chrissie when they were looking to
replace their Heavenly Twins catamaran for something larger in
which they would undertake and extended cruise. I asked him to
introduce himself; ‘Geoff started sailing off the beach in dinghies
in 1968. I bought my first sailing cruiser as a hull and deck only, in
about 1978. It was a Caprice 19 footer. I fitted it out and sailed it
for five years or so, taking it across the channel from Brighton to
Fecamp. In 1982 I took my Yachtmaster Offshore Shorebased.
Traded up through monohulls until in 1990 when I bought a 27
ft Heavenly Twins Catamaran. In 1992 I took my YM Offshore
practical and started teaching RYA shorebased courses. Also
in that year I bought the basic hull and deck of a 38ft Ocean
Twins Catamaran. In 1994 I upgraded my Yachtmaster ticket to
Commercial and started chartering my now finished Ocean Twins.
During the next few years my wife Chrissie I ran the boat as a
Skipper and Hostess charter operation, extensively cruising the
English Channel including a trip around UK in early 1995.
In the autumn of 1996 we left UK for the Canary Islands and the
start of a nine year circumnavigation, returning back to the UK in
2005. I then spent some years working with Multihull World, which
gained me much experience on a wide variety of Multihulls. I now
work as a Charter/ Delivery Skipper and undertake some yacht
maintenance work.’
Geoff can be e-mailed through
oceanswan@hotmail.com
They wrote a series of articles for Multihull Review on their
circumnavigation which can be accessed through this
HOTLINK
Geoff Linter and his wife Chrissie on board Ocean Swan
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