Publishing
The Marine QUARTERLY
Sam Llewellyn writes... I
have spent a lot of my life writing sea stories. A few months ago, I decided it was time to start publishing other
people’s. So last year I started suggesting to other sea writers that they might like to contribute stories to a new sea journal, to be called the Marine Quarterly. Conditions on board would be Spartan, with no photographs, a small circulation, low pay and a slim chance of fl eeting glory. To my astonishment, ideas for articles have poured in thick and fast. All concerned seem delighted at the chance to spread themselves in long articles about subjects close to their
hearts.Tom Cunliffe, one of Britain’s favourite yachting writer, is contributing a splendid series of extended articles on the history of some of the types of British vessel that illuminate a seagoing mind. It seems only fair to bring these masterly accounts of our marine heritage up to date with reports on the modern descendants of the vessels under discussion. So Tom’s story of (for instance) Thames barges will be accompanied by a fl y-on-the-wheelhouse-wall account of coastal freight in the 21st 21st
century, and its
-century virtues – effi ciency, greenness and keeping coastal communities alive other than by tourism.
78 cywinter 2011
As well as heritage and trade, we will be publishing stories about voyages, ships, boats, navigation, oceanography, fi sheries, natural history, conservation and sailing. Few fi rst-person narratives of voyages are as powerful as those of Roger Taylor, who regularly cruises single-handed to the Arctic. Roger will be contributing articles which combine a deep appreciation of the sea with useful insights into staying alive on it. Faced with his Spartan cruising regime, it is impossible not to think hard about your own relationship with your boat and the sea. On a different note, we publish in the fi rst issue Alex Ramsay’s hilarious memoir of a cruise to Greenland as cook to Bill Tilman in his ancient Bristol Channel pilot cutter Baroque.
Dodging big ships Some of the MQ’s articles come from direct observation. A summer dodging big ships being hauled around by tugs led to our correspondent spending a fascinating twenty-four hours aboard a tug pulling ships around the refi nery jetties of Milford Haven. A cruise to Skokholm and Skomer, nesting place for some half a million Manx shearwaters, has inspired a series that begins with the private life of the
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